Honour School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Differences from 2013/14 to 2021/22
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1. The examination in the Honour School of Archaeology and Anthropology shall consist of such subjects in Archaeology and Anthropology as the Social Sciences Board shall prescribe by regulation from time to time.
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2. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this school unless
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3. The examination shall be under the supervision of the Social Sciences Board. Under the overall direction of the board, the examination shall be administered by the School of Archaeology and the School of Anthropology, which shall jointly appoint a standing committee to advise the board as necessary in respect of this examination, and of Honour Moderations and the Preliminary Examination in Archaeology and Anthropology.
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4. Candidates will be required to take part in approved fieldwork as an integral part of their course. The fieldwork requirement will normally have been discharged before the
LongstartVacationof Michaelmas term of the second year of the course.
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Candidates are required to offer the following subjects, each to be examined by a written paper in the Trinity Term of their third year:
1. Social analysis and interpretation.
2. Cultural representations, beliefs, and practices.
3. Landscape and Ecology.
4. UrbanisationUrbanism and change in complex societies: comparative approachesSociety.
5. Fieldwork and Methods
- (a) Candidates must submit a portfolio of work as detailed below.
- (b) Candidates must submit a report with a maximum length of 5,000 words that provides a critical review of the approved fieldwork project on which they have worked, contextualising it within the broader field(s) of Archaeology and/or Anthropology.
- (c) Permission may be granted by the Standing Committee for video and sound clips to be submitted as additional supporting material to the fieldwork report.
- (d) The fieldwork report must be submitted electronically using the approved online submission system, accompanied by an online declaration of authorship, by no later than noon on the Friday of noughth week of Hilary Term in the first year of the Final Honour School.
- (e) Candidates must also submit three reports, each of which shall not exceed 1,000 words in length, in respect of the practical classes attended during each term of the first year of the Final Honour School. These classes address both the archaeological and anthropological components of the degree and candidates must submit reports on at least one archaeological topic and at least one anthropological topic.
- (f) Reports on each of the practical classes taken by a candidate must be submitted electronically using the approved online submissions system, accompanied by an online declaration of authorship, by no later than noon of the Friday of the eighth week of the term in which that class was taken.
- (g) Candidates are required to attend all of the practical classes offered.
56., 67., and 78. An approved combination of three optionaloption subjects, from Schedulethe Alist (Anthropology)of and Schedule B (Archaeology) [seeoptions below] or any other optionaloption subject approved by the Committee for the School of Archaeology or theStanding Committee for the School of Anthropology. To encourage a wide-ranging understanding of archaeology and anthropology, options shall be chosen in such a way that they constitute three independent, non-overlapping subjects.
8. A thesis, of not more than 15,000 words, which may be based on research in either archaeology or anthropology or on an interdisciplinary topic.
Candidates may be examined viva voce.
Schedule A (Anthropology)
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(a)Culture and Society of West Africa (b)South Asia(c)Lowland South America(d)Gender theories and realities cross cultural perspectives(e)Understanding Museums and Collections(f)Japanese society(g)The anthropology of medicine(h)Anthropology of Europe
Schedule B (Archaeology)
(a)The Later Prehistory of Europe(b)Archaeology of Southern African Hunter-Gatherers(c)Farming and early states in Sub-Saharan Africa(d)Mesopotamia and Egypt from the emergence of complex society toc.2000bc(e)Mesopotamia and Egypt 1000-500bc(f)The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean(g)The Greeks and the Mediterranean Worldc.950-500bc(h)Greek archaeology and artc.500-323bc(i)Roman Archaeology: Cities and settlement under the Empire(j)Art under the Roman Empire,ad14-336(k)The emergence of Medieval Europead400-900(l)Byzantium: the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages,ad500-1100(m)Science-based methods in Archaeology(n)Archaeology of Modern Human Origins(o)- Anthropology of Buddhism
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Archaeology of Southern African Hunter-Gatherers
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Art under the Roman Empire, AD 14-336
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Byzantium: the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, AD 500-1100
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Chinese Archaeology
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(r)TheBiologicalemergenceTechniquesofinMedievalEnvironmentalEuropeArchaeologyAD 400-900 -
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From hunting and gathering to states and empires in South-west Asia
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Gender and Sexuality: cross-cultural perspectives
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Greek archaeology and art c.500-323 BC
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Greeks and the Mediterranean World c.950-500 BC
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Hellenistic Archaeology, 330-30 BC
- Japanese society
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Language and Anthropology
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The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean
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The Later Prehistory of Europe
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Lowland South
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Medical Anthropology: Sensory Experience, the Sentient Body and Therapeutics
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Mediterranean Maritime Archaeology
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Mesopotamia and Egypt from the emergence of complex society to c.2000 BC
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Objects in Motion
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Physical Anthropology and Human Osteoarchaeology
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(u)TheRoman Archaeology:ofCitiesMinoanandCretesettlement3200under-the10000 BCEmpire -
(v)Science-basedHellenisticmethods in Archaeology, 330-30 BC
BecauseSouth of the potential overlapAsia
Themes in subjectAfrican matter, approval will not be given to candidates who wish to select from Schedule B Anthropology
Some options may not be available in every year. Candidates will be circulated a list of options offered for examination in the following two years of study by Friday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term.
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9. A dissertation of not more than 15,000 words, which may be based on research in either archaeology or anthropology or on an interdisciplinary topic (see specific details below)
ThesisDissertation
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1.(a) The subject of every
thesisdissertation shall, to the satisfaction of theregulatingStandingauthority concernedCommittee, fall within the field of Archaeology or Anthropology or both.-
(b) The subject of the
thesisdissertation may, but need not, overlap with a subject or period on which the candidate offers papers. Candidates are warned, however, that they must avoid repetition in the papers of material used in theirthesisdissertation, and that they will not be given credit for material extensively repeated. -
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theirthecollegeUndergraduate Administrator, to the Chair of the Standing Committeefor the Undergraduate Degree in Archaeology and Anthropology (c/o the Secretary of the Standing Committee, Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont Street),the title of the proposedthesisdissertation, together with (a) a synopsis of the subject in about 100 words; and (b) a letter of support from thetutorperson whom they wish to supervise their dissertation (and who willsupervisebe subject to thethesisStanding Committee’s approval), not later thanMondayWednesday oftheWeeknoughth week0 oftheTrinity Full Termpreceding that in whichof theexaminationfirstisyearheldof the Final Honour School. -
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for the Undergraduate Degree in Archaeology and Anthropologywill decide as soon as possible, and in every case by the end of the fifth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination, whether or not to approve the title, and will advise candidates of its decision forthwith.
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2.(e) Everythesisdissertation must be the candidate's own work, although it is expected that tutors will discuss with candidates the proposed field of study, the sources available, and the method of presentation. Tutors may also read and comment on a first draft.Candidates must sign a certificate stating that the thesis is their own work, and their tutors shall countersign the certificate affirming that they have assisted the candidate no more than these regulations allow. This certificate must be presented at the same time that the thesis is submitted, but in a separate sealed envelope addressed to the Chair of the Examiners. 3.(f)ThesesDissertations previously submitted for the Honour School of Archaeology and Anthropology may be resubmitted. Nothesisdissertation will be accepted if it has already been submitted, wholly or substantially, for another final honour school or degree of this University or a degree of any other institution. The certificate must also contain confirmation that thethesisdissertation has not already been so submitted.-
4.(g) Nothesisdissertation shall be ineligible because it has been submitted, in whole or in part, for any scholarship or prize of this University advertised in the Oxford University Gazette. -
5.(h) Nothesisdissertation shall exceed 15,000 words in length, that limit to include all notes but not bibliographies, catalogues of material evidence, gazetteers, or technical appendices.(i) All
thesesdissertations must be typed in double-spacing on one side of A4 paper,and must bebound or held firmly in a stiff cover. Two copies must be submitteduploaded to thechairUniversityofapprovedtheonlineexaminers,assessmentand a third copy must be retained by the candidateplatform. All copies must bear the candidate's examination number but nothis or hertheir name. -
6.(j) Thethesisdissertation must besentsubmitted electronically,notaccompanied by an online declaration of authorship, by no later than noon on Friday of the ninth week of Hilary Full Termprecedingof theexamination,secondto the Chairyear of theExaminers,Final Honour Schoolof Archaeology and Anthropology,ExaminationusingSchools,theHighapprovedStreet,onlineOxfordsubmission system.
Candidates may be examined viva voce.