If you are not an archaeologist, you may not realize that the scholarship on historical bottles is so vast and complex. If you are, you know that much of that scholarship is courtesy of Bill Lindsey.
In this Underground History, recorded in the field, Chelsea Rose interviews Bill, a.k.a. the "Bottle Guy." He is a retired Rangeland Management Specialist with the Oregon BLM and is the primary author of the , jointly hosted by BLM and the Society for Historical Archaeology. He has collected and studied historic bottles for over 50 years.