Abstract
As a result of their ubiquity in water, their sensitivity to changing water quality, often high species diversity, the habitat specificity of species, and their excellent potential for preservation, diatoms have a wide range of applications in environmental archeology. These applications include on-site investigations of the impact of human activities on water quality at sites ranging from the remote arctic to urban environments. Diatoms have been used in the analysis of the provenance and typology of ancient artifacts such as pottery and mud bricks. Diatoms have been used in the environmental archeological analysis of man-made water bodies such as moats and fishponds. Diatom analysis is also used in the investigation of waterfront sites and in the interpretation of ancient boat finds. Lastly, as a result of the strong influence of water quality on the composition of species assemblages, diatom analysis has been applied in the analysis of a number of unusual environmental archeological contexts including salt-making sites and in the related field of forensic investigation.
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