Culture or time period
- Early Acheulean50 objects
- Early Ancón period20 objects
- Early Chimú (Moche Civilization) (ca. 100 BC–700 AD)1,132 objects
- Early Chincha period96 objects
- Early Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1900 BC)77 objects
- Early Dynastic I (ca. 2900–2750/2700 BC)1 objects
- Early Dynastic III (ca. 2700–2340 BC)12 objects
- Early Dynastic IIIb (2500–2340 BC)4 objects
- Early Dynastic I–II (ca. 2900–2700 BC)2 objects
- Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2900–2340 BC)14 objects
- Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (ca. 3000–2686 BC)3,718 objects
- Early Etruscan culture (800–600 BC)22 objects
- Early Horizon of California (ca. 5000–500 BC)12 objects
- Early Horizon, ancient Peru (ca. 860–200 BC)720 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture121 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture, phase 122 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture, phase 220 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture, phase 327 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture, phase 422 objects
- Early Horizon: Windmiller Culture, phase 525 objects