The International Council on Monuments and Sites is one of three Advisory Bodies named in the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage to advise the Intergovernmental World Heritage Committee on the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List.

To fulfill its obligations concerning cultural properties, ICOMOS undertakes comparative and thematic studies, often with partner organizations, in different subject areas in order to provide a context for its evaluations.

The following studies have been prepared

• The International Canal Monuments (1996)
• Context for World Heritage Bridges (1997)
• Potential Fossil Hominid Sites for Inscription on the World Heritage List (1997)
• The Urban Architectural Heritage of Latin America (1998)
• Railways as World Heritage Sites (1999)
• Les Théâtres et les Amphithéâtres antiques (1999)
• Les villages ouvriers comme éléments du patrimoine de l'industrie (2001)
• Southern African Rock-Art Sites (2002)
• L'Art rupestre (2002)
• The International Collieries Study (2003)
• Les Monastères orthodoxes dans les balkans (2003)
• Les paysages culturels viticoles (2004)
• Rock Art of Latin America and the Caribbean (2006)
• Rock Art of Sahara and North Africa (2007)
• Cultural landscapes of the Pacific Islands (2007)

For further information, write:

ICOMOS
World Heritage Unit
49-51 rue de la Fédération
75015 Paris, FRANCE
Fax: +33 (0)1.45.66.06.22
E-mail: secretariat@icomos.org

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