Reporter 15/1/03: Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos

REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINATIONS: NOTICE BY THE GENERAL BOARD

The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:

Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 240)

With immediate effect

Parts IIa and IIb

Papers A13-A16. Classical archaeology

Papers A13-A16 are Papers D1-D4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos. The detail for these papers has been amended to bring them up to date with the changes in their content announced by the Faculty Board of Classics for the examination in 2003 (see Reporter, 2000-01, p. 846). The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology are satisfied that no candidate's preparation for the examination in 2003 is adversely affected by this amendment.

Within Classical archaeology, four different papers are available. Paper A13 (Aegean prehistory) deals with the origins of settled village farming communities, through the emergence of complex societies in the Early Bronze Age and the palatial systems of Minoan Crete and the Mycenean mainland. Until further notice, the subject prescribed for Paper A14 will be 'Mediterranean landscapes (Italy, 800 BC - AD 500)' covering regional studies from Greece and Italy using approaches from landscape archaeology, including spatial archaeology, visibility, landscapes of power, sacred landscapes, modes of representation, and commemoration through landscape. Until further notice the subject prescribed for Paper A15 will be 'The classical body: the archaeology and legacy of an ideal'. The paper investigates the intellectual, stylistic, and social origins of bodily beauty as framed and represented in Classical (Greco-Roman) art. Paper A16 (The archaeology of Roman urbanism) investigates Roman urbanism through the analysis of archaeological and written evidence, considering how the study of urban sites reveals the workings of the Roman empire.

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