Hi Prema,

I have some references on calendar studies from ancient Egypt:


Depuydt, Leo, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt (Leuven, 1997)

El-Sabban, Sherif, Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt (Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies) (Liverpool University Press, 2000)

Gardiner, Alan H., "The Problem of Month Names," Revue d'Egyptologie, Volume 10, 1955, 9-31

Parker, Richard A., "Egyptian Astronomy, Astrology, and Calendrical Reckoning," Dictionary of Scientific Biography, XV Supplement 1 (Scribner's Sons, New York, 1978) 705-27

Parker, Richard A., "Lunar Dates of Thutmoses III and Ramses II," Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 6 6, 1957, 39-43

Parker, Richard A., "Review of Schott's Altägyptische Festdaten," Bibliotheca Orientalia, Volume 9, 1952, 100-103

Parker, Richard A., "Sothic Dates and Calendar 'Adjustment'," Revue d'Egyptologie Volume 9, 1952, 101-8

Parker, Richard A., The Calendars of Ancient Egypt (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1950)

Parker, Richard A., "The Problem of Month Names: A Reply," Revue d'Egyptologie Volume 11, 1957, 85-107

Schott, Siegfried, Altägyptische Festdaten (Akadamie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Weisbaden, 1950) {in German}

Sloley, R. W., "Primitive Methods of Measuring Time with special reference to Egypt," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 17, 1931, 166-78

Spalinger, Anthony, "A Chronological Analysis of the Feast of txy," Studien Zur Altägyptischen Kultur Volume 20, 1993, 289-304

Spalinger, Anthony, "Ancient Egyptian Calendars: How Many Were There?" Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 39, 2002, 241-250

Spalinger, Anthony, "Calendars: Real and Ideal," Essays in Egyptology in Honor of Hans Goedicke, Bryan, Betsy M., and David Lorton, editors (Van Siclen Books, Texas, 1994) 297-308

Spalinger, Anthony, (editor) Revolutions in Time: Studies in Ancient Egyptian Calendrics (Van Siclen Books, 1994)

Spalinger, Anthony, Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts and Their Chronological
Implications (Halgo, MD, 1992)

For Africa, I have:

Ruggles, Clive, "The Borana calendar: Some observations," Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the History of Astronomy, no 11, 1987, s53-53

Ruggles, Clive, "Four approaches to the Borana calendar," Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s, edited by Clive L.N. Ruggles (Group D Publications, Loughborough, 1993), 117-122

Turton, David and Clive Ruggles, "Agreeing to disagree: The measurement of duration in a southewestern Ethiopian community," Current Anthropology Volume xix, 1978, 585-600

For China, I have:

Nivison, David S., and Kevin Pang,"Astronomical Evidence for the Bamboo Annals’ Chronicle of the Xia Dynasty," Early China, Volume 15, 1990,

Pang, Kevin D. and Kevin Yua, "The Need for More Accurate 4000-year Ephemerides, Based on Lunar and Spacecraft Ranging, Ancient Eclipse and Planetary Data," Dynamics, Ephemerides and Astrometry of the Solar System, S. Ferraz-Mello, editor (Kluwer, the Netherlands,1996) 113-116

Pankenier, David, “Mozi and the Dates of Xia, Shang, and Zhou: A Research Note," Early China 9-10, 1983-85, 175-183

Pankenier, David, “Comment on David S. Nivison and Kevin Pang, ‘Astronomical Evidence for the Bamboo Annals’ Chronicle of the Xia Dynasty,’ Early China Forum, Early China 15 (1990): 117-132.

Hopefully, someone like Damian will have more info on cultures I don't have, maybe Kat or Bernard have material on meso-American or South American calendrics.

HTH,