Uncontacted contemporaries · 600 overlapping years

Etruscan Civilization Jomon Culture

For 600 years — from 900 BCE to 300 BCE — both civilizations existed simultaneously. Neither this dataset nor the historical record shows any documented trade, war, or diplomatic contact between them.

14,000 BCE 27 BCE

Etruscan Civilization

900 BCE–27 BCE

Jomon Culture

14,000 BCE–300 BCE

↑ Overlap begins, 900 BCE

Etruscan Civilization

Central Italy

A loose league of city-states in central Italy whose customs and alphabet were absorbed into Rome's own emerging culture.

Jomon Culture

Japanese archipelago

A remarkably long-lived hunter-gatherer culture in Japan, notable for producing some of the world's earliest pottery long before agriculture took hold.

Traits both developed independently

With no documented contact, any shared trait below represents independent development rather than transmission from one to the other.

Long-distance trade Seafaring

Etruscan Civilization only

Monumental architecture
Bronze metallurgy
Iron metallurgy
Irrigation agriculture
Standing army
Astronomical record-keeping
Urban planning

Jomon Culture only

No traits unique to Jomon Culture in this comparison.