第一部分进一步阅读书目（第2/2页）
古代中东。Henri Frankfort, The Birth of Civilization in the Near East（Bloomington, Ind., 1951）; V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History（Penguin, 1943）; Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character（Chicago, 1963）; John A. Wilson, The Burden of Egypt: An Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Culture（Chicago,1951）; A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia, Portrait of a Dead Civilization（Chicago,1964）; Karl W. Butzer, Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology（Chicago,1976）; W. Stevenson Smith, Interconnections in the Ancient Near East: A Study of the Relationships between the Arts of Egypt, the Aegean and Western Asia（New Haven, Conn., 1965）; O. R. Gurney, The Hittites, rev. ed. （Penguin, 1961）; George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele, When Egypt Ruled the East, rev. ed. （Chicago, 1957）; A. T. Olmstead, A History of Assyria（Chicago, 1923）; Donald Harden, The Phoenicians（New York, 1962）; William F. Albright, The Archeology of Palestine, rev. ed. （Penguin, 1960）; H. H. Robinson and W. O.E. Oesterly, History of Israel, 2 vols. （Oxford,1932）;H. H. Rowley ed., The Old Testament and Modern Study（Oxford, 1951）; A. T. Olmstead, A History of the Persian Empire（Chicago, 1948）; R. C. Zaehner, The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism（New York, 1961）; Jack Finegan,Light from the Ancient past: The Archeological Background of Judaism and Christianity, 2nd ed. （Princeton, 1959）; David Diringer, The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind, 2nd ed. Rev. （London, 1953）; Ignace J.Gelb, A Study of Writing, rev. ed. （Chicago, 1964）; Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Science in Antiquity（Leiden, 1950）; Charles Singer, et al., eds., A History of Technology, I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires（Oxford, 1954）; 和R. J. Forbes, Metallurgy in Antiquity（Leiden, 1950）。
欧洲。J.G.D.Clark, Prehistoric Europe: The Economic Basis（New York and London, 1952）; C. F. C. Hawkes, The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age（London, 1940）; V. Gorden Childe, The Dawn of European Civilization, 6th ed. （New York, 1958）; John Boardman et al., eds., The European Community in Later Prehistory: Studies in Honor of C. F. C. Hawkes（Totowa. N. J., 1971）; J. D. Evans, Malta（New York, 1959）; J. D. S. Pendlebury, The Archeology of Ancient Crete（Penguin, 1962）; Sinclair Hood, The Minoans: The Story of Bronze Age Crete（New York, 1971）; A. R. Burn, Minoans, Philistines and Greeks, 1400～900 B.C. （London, 1930）; Chester G. Starr, Origins of Greeks Civilization, 1100～650 B.C. （New York, 1961）; M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus（New York, 1954）; Eric R. Ddodds, The Greeks and the Irrational（Boston, 1957）; Alfred E, Zimmern, The Greek Commonwealth, 5th ed. rev.（Oxford, 1931）; M. I. Finley, Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages（New York, 1970）; M. Pallottino, Art of the Etruscans（London and New York, 1955）; Raymond Block, Origins of Rome（New York, 1960）; T. G. Powell, The Celts（New York, 1958）; B. H. Warmington, Carthage（London, 1960）; 和Marija Gimbutas, The Slavs（New York, 1971）。
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。