Prehistory of Shushtrepistaz

A Paleolithic culture around 30,000 BC constitutes the first known habitation of Shushtrepistaz. This was followed from around 15,000 BC by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture, who include ancestors of both the contemporary Kuiko people and Isulo people, characterized by pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture. Decorated clay vessels from this period are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. Around 250 BC, the Yayoi people began to enter the Shushtrepistaz islands, intermingling with the Isulo. The Yayoi period, starting around 500 BC, saw the introduction of practices like wet-rice farming, a new style of pottery, and metallurgy, introduced from China and Korea.