Located on fertile soils, it was a farming village that contributed resources to the larger governing chiefdom of San José Mogote, 10 kilometers north of Tierras Largas.
[2] This small farming community neither grew nor shrunk drastically in size, and throughout each of its phases, the village had a consistent number of houses.
Many forms of art have been recovered from Tierras Largas, “people used imported shell to make beads, and pendants”.
At this time, most settlements were located on low, well-drained piedmont ridges or spurs adjacent to both the fertile zone of high alluvial soils and the major river channels.
“Based on the analyses of the Tierras Largas phase burials, houses, and storage pits, there is no indication that either ranking or socially determined inequality or stratification existed at this time”.