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Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, 2009-10: Notice

Parts IIA and IIB (Archaeology)

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice of the following list of papers to be offered for the examination in Archaeology for Parts IIA and IIB of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, 2009-10 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 247):

Core papers

A1. Archaeological thought I
A2. Archaeology in action I (also serves as Paper O12 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
A3. Archaeological thought II
A4. Archaeology in action II
A10. Archaeological practice

Special areas

A5. The archaeology of early human development
A8. Later European prehistory
A9. Special topics in European prehistory
A13. Aegean prehistory (Paper D1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
A14. The art and archaeology of Roman Britain (Paper D2 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
A15. The poetics of Classical art (Paper D3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
A16. Roman cities (Paper D4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
A18. The historical archaeology of Ancient Egypt II
A20. Ancient Egyptian religion II
A21. Mesopotamian culture I: Mesopotamian literature
A24. Mesopotamian archaeology II: states to empires
A25. Europe in the first millennium AD I: Anglo-Saxon archaeology (also serves as Paper 14 of Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)
A26. Europe in the first millennium AD II: Scandinavian archaeology (also serves as Paper 15 of Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)
A28. The archaeology of medieval Britain
A31. Ancient India II: Early historic cities of India
A33. Ancient South America
A37. Introduction to scientific approaches in archaeology
A38. Archaeological science

The following papers are NOT on offer in the academical year 2009-10:

A29. Ancient India I: Prehistory of India
A36. The late prehistoric and historical archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology are satisfied that no student's preparation for the examination in 2010 will be adversely affected by these suspensions.


Parts IIA and IIB (Biological Anthropology)

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice of the following list of variable papers to be offered for the examination in Biological Anthropology for Parts IIA and IIB of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, 2009-10 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 248):

Option Title Form of assessment
BA5. History of human evolutionary thought 2 hour written exam
BA6. Humans in an evolutionary paradigm Submitted essay of 4000 words
BA7. Evolution and function of the human brain 2 hour written exam
BA8. Evolutionary prehistory 2 hour written exam
BA9. Ancient molecules and human evolution:
   big clues writ small …
2 hour written exam + 18% practical work
BA10. Evolution of human morphological and behavioural phenotypes and their genetic basis 2 hour written exam
BA11. Health and disease in the past Submitted essay of 4000 words
BA12. Evolution of human life history Submitted essay of 4000 words
BA13. Primate molecular ecology 2 hour written exam + 18% practical work
BA14. Cultural primatology 2 hour written exam
BA16. Data handling in biological anthropology 2 hour written exam

Note: candidates who took special subjects: BA6, 9, 11, 13, and 16 for Part IIA will not be able to take these special subjects as Part IIB candidates.

Parts IIA and IIB (Social Anthropology)

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice of the following list of variable papers to be offered for the examination in Social Anthropology for Parts IIA and IIB of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, 2009-10 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 249):

Option papers:

S7. Anthropology of colonialism and empire
S8. Science and society
S9. Anthropology of cities and space
S10. Development

Ethnographic area papers:

S6(a). Inner Asia
S6(b). Latin America
S6(c). Southeast Asia

Part I: Set texts

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice that the set texts for Part I of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos in the academical year 2009-10 will be as follows:

Paper 6. Akkadian language 1

The Code of Hammurapi, in E. Bergmann ed., Codex Hammurabi (1953), laws 1-65 in cuneiform. The Annals of Sennacherib, third to seventh campaigns, in R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke, 2nd ed. (1979), pp. 329-332. In cuneiform.

Paper 7. Egyptian language 1

A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (Third edn., Oxford, 1957), reading extracts at ends of chapters XIV, XV, XVII, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII.

K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924-37), nos. 3, 14, 22, 23.

Parts IIA and IIB: Set texts

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice that the set texts for Parts IIA and IIB of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos in the academical year 2009-10 will be as follows:

Paper E1. Egyptian language 2

(a) K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924-37), nos. 11, 12, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34.

(b) Urkunden der 18. Dynastie (ed. K. Sethe and W. Helck, Berlin) IV. 356-375 and IV, 647-67.

(c) M. Sandman, Texts from the time of Akhenaten, 93-96.

Paper M1. Akkadian language 2

(a) Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, lines 1-266, in S. Parpola, The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (1997), pp. 57-62. In cuneiform.

(b) The Gula Hymn of Bullutsa-rabi, W. G. Lambert, Orientalia 36 (1967) 105-32. In transliteration.