Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)290 objects
- Paleolithic and Mesolithic257 objects
- Oceanian cultures72 objects
- Aboriginal Australians70 objects
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders70 objects
- Magosian60 objects
- American cultures57 objects
- North American cultures55 objects
- North American native cultures55 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)50 objects
- Mesoamerican chronology41 objects
- Howieson's Poort35 objects
- Classic Era, Mesoamerica (200–1000 AD)34 objects
- Mousterian30 objects
- Ancient Egyptian27 objects
- Classical Civilizations27 objects
- Egypt27 objects
- California tribes26 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)22 objects
- Northern California tribes21 objects