Chivateros is a prehistoric stone tool quarry and associated workshop located near the mouth of the Chillón river in the Ventanilla District, northwest of Lima, Peru.

Dating has been aided by the deposition of both loess and salt crust layers which suggest alternating periods of dryness and humidity and which can be synchronized with glacial activity in the Northern Hemisphere.

[3] Subsequent surveys by French archaeologist Claude Chauchat in the 1970s found similar Chivateros sites in Cupisnique, which he was able to link with workshops producing stemmed Paijanense tips with a dating going back to the eighth millennium BC.

The most widely known material of these quarries are the Chivateros preforms (erroneously described by Lanning as "handaxes" and "spearheads"), which were the first outline of pedunculate tips.

People who provisioned the raw material from Chivateros hill lived in Pampa Piedras Gordas and in Carabayllo, where Lanning found his workshops and housing areas, which he called the Lítico Light Complex.