Valdivia culture

Valdivia
	Map of Valdivia culture
Geographical range	Santa Elena
Period	Late Archaic
Dates	3500 - 1500 BCE
Preceded by	Las Vegas culture
Followed by	Machalilla culture, Cotocollao culture

The Valdivia culture is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas. It emerged from the earlier Las Vegas culture and thrived along the coast of Santa Elena peninsula in Santa Elena Province of Ecuador between 3500 BCE and 1500 BCE.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Tamara Bray (2009). "Ecuador's Pre-Columbian Past". In Torre, Carlos de la; Striffler, Steve (eds.). The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0822390114.
^ Berkshire encyclopedia of world history (2nd ed.). Berkshire Publishing Group. 2010. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-933782-65-2.
^ Fagan, Brian M., ed. (2012). The Oxford companion to archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 737. ISBN 9780195076189.
^ Silberman, Neil Asher (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Volume 3. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780199735785.

[1] Tamara Bray (2009). "Ecuador's Pre-Columbian Past". In Torre, Carlos de la; Striffler, Steve (eds.). The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0822390114.

[2] Berkshire encyclopedia of world history (2nd ed.). Berkshire Publishing Group. 2010. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-933782-65-2.

[3] Fagan, Brian M., ed. (2012). The Oxford companion to archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 737. ISBN 9780195076189.

[4] Silberman, Neil Asher (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Volume 3. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780199735785.

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