Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan. International Publishers. 1972. ISBN 978-0-7178-0359-0.
Richard B. Lee, 1992. "Demystifying Primitive Communism". In Christine Ward Gailey (ed), Civilization in Crisis. Anthropological Perspectives. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, pp. 73-94
Alan Barnard, 2008. "Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship". In Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight (eds), The Cradle of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language 12). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 219-35. (2009)
Knight, C. 2002. "Language and revolutionary consciousness". In A. Wray (ed.), The Transition to Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 138-160.
Knight, C. and J. Lewis 2014. "Vocal deception, laughter, and the linguistic significance of reverse dominance". Chapter 21 in D. Dor, C. Knight and J. Lewis (eds), The Social Origins of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Richard B. Lee, 1992. "Demystifying Primitive Communism". In Christine Ward Gailey (ed), Civilization in Crisis. Anthropological Perspectives. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, pp. 73-94
21世紀文獻
(法文) Christophe Darmangeat, Le Communisme primitif n’est plus ce qu’il était, Toulouse Collectif d'édition Smolny(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), 2009, new edition completely revised, 2012
(法文)Alain Testart, Avant l'histoire : l'évolution des sociétés, de Lascaux à Carnac. Gallimard, 2012
(法文)Alain Testart, Le communisme primitif, économie et idéologie, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1995
歷史與原始文獻
(法文)Paul Lafargue, Le Déterminisme économique de Karl Marx. Recherche sur l'origine des idées de Justice, du Bien, de l'âme et de dieu, L'Harmattan, 1997 (1909)
Paul Lafargue, The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization, (1891), (new edition, 1905)
(法文) Paul Lafargue, La propriété, Origine et évolution, Éditions du Sandre, 2007 (1890) (Lire en ligne(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Archives marxistes sur Internet)
Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884
Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, 1877
Johann Jakob Bachofen, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen by Joseph Campbell (Introduction) and George Boas (preface), Princeton University Press, 380p., 1992