Students prevented by illness from taking or completing the scheduled exam must take the exam as soon as their health permits and no later than the following quarter. An exam rescheduled because of ill-health will have a new selection of questions. Cases of chronic illness will be handled on an individual basis. Students who have made arrangements to do so may use personal computers to take the exam. All hard drives will be examined by the Computer GSA before the day of the first exam paper and, except when actually taking exams, the students will not have physical access to their systems again until after the last exam paper.
Evaluation is by the entire archaeology faculty.
In order to ensure impartiality, exam papers are identified only by code names until final grades have been assigned. The exam is graded on a scale of 0.7 to 4.0 in increments of 0.l. A key article on craft specialization stresses that, Production and exchange as the two key components of an economyshould be studied as an integrated system. First, examine the interrelationships of craft specialization, exchange, and social complexity systemically. Then, emphasizing the character of the archaeological data, discuss recent attempts to apply these notions to ceramic and lithic technologies.