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Heritage Impact Assessment
This assessment is the process of impact on past heritage ancestors and grave yards. South Africa’s heritage resources are both rich and widely diverse, encompassing sites from all periods of human history. Resources may be tangible, such as buildings and archaeological artefacts, or intangible, such as landscapes and living heritage. Their significance is based upon their aesthetic, architectural, historical, scientific, social, spiritual, linguistic, economic or technological values; their representative of a particular time period; their rarity; and their sphere of influence.
Although the dissemination of project results is embedded in each project, there is room for improvement regarding knowledge transfer and commercial exploitation of results which would generally benefit from the help of specialists in this field. There is still significant fragmentation in research in this area. In line with the general approach of the European Research Area (ERA), further efforts are required to improve communication and coordination of research including strengthening links with policy and user needs.
The problem is that low bid firms hired by the governing body or the funeral director have no knowledge in osteology (human skeletal remains), period burial practices (like the types of coffins used during different periods or the social status that different practices reflect), or even how to best excavate human remains. often these low-bid firms use backhoes to scoop up some soil and dump it in a pasteboard box, claiming that no bone would be left anyway. Or sometimes the labourers they hire have no idea what they are actually looking for. The result – human remains are disrespected by being overlooked, damaged, and destroyed.
