Culture or time period
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)669 objects
- Mesoamerican chronology560 objects
- Preclassic Era, Mesoamerica (1800 BC–200 AD)455 objects
- Olmec378 objects
- North America108 objects
- California sequence102 objects
- American cultures97 objects
- North American cultures95 objects
- North American native cultures91 objects
- Middle Preclassic Period, Mesoamerica (1500–600 BC)77 objects
- Classic Era, Mesoamerica (200–1000 AD)74 objects
- Emergent Period of California (1000–1800 AD)56 objects
- Late Horizon of California (after 250–1000 AD)56 objects
- Lower Emergent Period of California (1000–1500 AD)49 objects
- Archaic Period of California (6000 BC–1000 AD)46 objects
- California tribes41 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture37 objects
- Middle Archaic Period of California (3000–500 BC)37 objects
- Zapotec civilization (ca. 700 BC–1521 AD)31 objects
- Central California Tribes26 objects