Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. Pre-Columbian (American)
7. [Pre-Columbian South American styles and periods]
8. [Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods]

Narrower term/s

• Early Chiripa
• Late Chiripa
• Middle Chiripa

Anotations

Scope note:

Pre-Columbian culture and period of the Central Andes, marked by the expansion of irrigation on the coast and and development of a lake-agricultural-livestock economy; focused on southern shore of Lake Titicaca, and population center at Chiripa, Bolivia. The culture is temporally located between the between the Initial period and Early Horizon period.