A Formative-period culture of the highland Quito basin, known for distinctive red-tinted pumice-paste ceramics (some crafted to produce animal/bird sounds), rectangular wattle-and-daub houses, and a farming economy of maize, beans, quinoa, potatoes and lupin, supplemented by hunting.
Gradually abandoned following eruptions of the nearby Pululahua volcano; the Quito valley was later resettled by subsequent Formative and Regional Development-period peoples.
Dumbarton Oaks volume covering Ecuador's Formative-period cultures including the highland Quito-basin sequence Cotocollao belongs to.
The primary excavation monograph on the Cotocollao site itself, published by the Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador.