Abstract
Bottles produced in the United States after the eighteenth century may be rather precisely dated on the basis of recorded changes in bot tle manufacture techniques. The bottle man ufacture process was constantly improved throughout this period and the dates at which many of the new techniques appeared seem well established. Obviously, by knowing the invention dates of the various techniques used to produce any one bottle, it is possible to know that the bottle could not have been made prior to the latest dated technique used in its manufacture. This provides a "no earlier than" type of absolute date for the bottle, and for any coterminous archaeological level in which it is found.
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