The article "Telling Time for Archaeologists" by George L. Miller with
contributions by Patricia Samford, Ellen Shlasko, and Andrew Madsen was
published in *Northeast Historical Archaeology* Vol. 29, 2000 pages 1-22.
It has a long list of *TPQ *and other dates with references to the source of
the dates.  Four posters were created from this article.  They only contain
a selection of dates from the article.

Peace,
George L. Miller

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Megan Springate
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> Hi, Margaret
>
> Some references I use are:
>
> Simpson, Pamela H. (1999) Cheap, Quick and Easy, Imitative Architectural
> Materials, 1870-1930. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville
>
> Jester, Thomas C. (ed) (1995) Twentieth-Century Building Materials;
> History and Conservation. McGraw Hill, New York
>
> Paul, Larry (2005) Made in the 20th Century. Scarecrow Press, Lanham,
> Maryland
>
> For variations in Fiesta, I like Moran, Mark F. and Glen Victorey (2006)
> Fiesta. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin.
>
> -- Megan Springate
>
> > The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is studying two industrial sites
> > in Big Bend Ranch State Park in far west Texas that are located within
> 500
> > m of each other.  Each facility has an associated small settlement.  The
> > candelilla wax factory was established around 1914 and operated through
> > 1921, while the cinnabar flotation mill and retorts were built in 1939
> and
> > were in operation as late as 1944.
> >
> > We suspect that some of the houses in the earlier settlement were
> > reoccupied during the later cinnabar processing period.  The challenge is
> > to distinguish artifacts dating to the 1910s from ones dating to the late
> > 1930s and 1940s.  Depression glass and Fiesta ware (beginning in 1936)
> > would be indicative of the later occupation, and some bottle marks also
> > can be limited to one or the other of these time ranges.
> >
> > Please advise me of other artifacts with spans of production that allow
> > for the distinction of these early 20th century time periods.
> >
> > Margaret Howard, Archeology Survey Team Leader
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> >
>