e, I: The Vedic Age (London,1951); Bridget and Raymond Allchin, The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan before 500B.C.(Penguin,1968); 和J. H. Hutton, Caste in India: Its Nature Functions and Origins (Cambridge, 1946).
中国。Ping-ti Ho, Cradle of the East (Chicago, 1975); Herrlee G. Creel, The Birth of China (London, 1936; reissued 1951); Li Chi, The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization (Seattle, 1957); Cheng Te-K’un, Archeology in China, I: Prehistoric China(Cambridge, 1959), Cheng Te-K’un, Archelogy in China, II:Shang China(Cambridge, 1960); Cheng Te-K’un, Archelogy in China, III: Chou China(Cambridge, 1964); Chang Kwang-Chih, Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge, Mass., 1976); William Watson, China: Before the Han Dynasty (New York, 1961); Herrlee Creel, The Origins of Statecraft in China, I: The Western Chou Empire (Chicago, 1970); L.C. Goodrich, A Short History of Chinese People, 3rd ed. (New York, 1959);和三部引起争议但也引人入胜的著作，Herrlee G. Greel, Confucius, the Man and the Myth (New York, 1949);新书名Confucius and the Chinese Way (New York, 1960); Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, multivolumed (Cambridge, 1954--)；和G. F. Hudson, Europe and China (London, 1931).
世界其它地区。公元前500年前，世界其它地区大多数几乎没有进入历史记录。但是，关于非洲史前史的三部著作在这里值得提及：Sonia Cole, The Prehistory of East Africa (New York, 1954); J. Desmond Clark, The Prehistory of Southern Africa (Penguin, 1959); 和George Peter Murdock, Africa: Its peoples and Their Cultural History (New York, 1959). 关于新大陆和东南亚，相关著作似乎最好附录在本书第二部分的参考书目说明中。