At 01:04 PM 7/30/1998 -0700, Mary Ellin wrote:
>One thing that would be really really cool for the site is a TPQ list.
>Currently everybody has to create their own, so it would be really neat to
>have a standardized list of the most common items (obviously with
>references to appropriate sources) and a maybe a (brief) starter list of
>reference works for dating and typing artifacts.  The best thing about this
>type of a TPQ list is that it could keep up with innovations and provide
>asingle location and academic reference for such innovations as pop-top
>cans, etc
 
Now this is a truly brilliant idea. The only one I'm aware of right now is
Robert Varnum's Australian historics, which I'll go ahead and list even
though I think I got his url from Histarch:
 
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6559/scc145.html
 
But, something like the IMACS document, only online. After all there are
tons of projectile point identification sites (eh, Mistah Pfeiffer?).
Coolness, Mary Ellin.
 
kris
 
 
Kris Hirst
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The University of Iowa
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