Table 1 Definitions of the six basic types of world cultural heritage [26, 27]
Type | Definition |
|---|---|
Monument and Historic Buildings | This category encompasses individual, built heritage resources and architectural complexes and their settings. These are deemed to possess heritage significance and have been or will be listed or declared for protection and conservation |
Historic Urban | A historic urban site or heritage group comprises several related and spatially adjacent, or at least proximate, resources, all of which are of heritage value individually or contribute to the group's overall heritage significance |
Industrial Heritage | Industrial heritage refers to the physical remains of the history of technology and industry, such as manufacturing and mining sites, as well as power and transportation infrastructure |
Archaeological Sites | An archaeological site comprises any combination of structural remains, artefacts and ecological elements within a culturally modified soil matrix. A site may lie entirely beneath the surface or appear partially above it. It may be fully or partially excavated, or it may be known only through textual reference or subsoil or remote sensing |
Cultural Landscape | A cultural landscape is a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values |
Underwater Heritage | Underwater cultural heritage means all traces of human existence having a cultural, historical or archaeological character which have been partially or totally underwater, periodically or continuously, for at least 100 years |