第一部分进一步阅读书目（第3/3页）
欧亚草原。V. Gordon Childe,The Arsyans: A Study of Indo-European Origins（New York, 1926）; Tamara Talbot Rice, The Scythians（London, 1957）; M. Rostovtzeff, Iranians and Greeks in South Russia（Oxford, 1922）;George Vernadsky, Ancient Russia（New Haven, 1943）; William M. McGovern, The Early Empires of Central Asia（Chapel Hill, N. C., 1939）; Charles Burney and David M. Lang, The Peoples of the Hills, Ancient Ararat and Caucasus（New York, 1972）; 和V. M. Masson and V. I. Sarianidi, Central Asia: Turkemenia before the Achaemenids（New York, 1972）。
印度。Stuart W. Piggott, Prehistoric India to1000 B.C. （Penguin, 1950）; R. E. M. Wheeler, Early India and Pakistan, to Ashoka, rev. ed. （London, 1968）; R. E. M. Wheeler, The Indus Civilization,The Cambridge History of India, supp.vol. （Cambridge, 1953）; The Indus Civilization（Cambridge, 1968）; R. C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker, eds., History and Culture of the Indian People, I: The Vedic Age（London,1951）; Bridget and Raymond Allchin, The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan before500 B.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, Archeology in China, II:Shang China（Cambridge, 1960）; Cheng Te-K’un, Archeology 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）。
世界其他地区。公元前500年前，世界其他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进一步阅读书目中。