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Archaeological research in Puerto Rico has sought to understand the Taíno Amerindians and their predecessors. The Spanish Empire of the 16th century essentially wiped out these indigenous peoples, but by the 19th century aboriginal archaeological artifacts were being catalogued in Puerto Rico. The ...

When collagen, abundantly available in all the connective tissues of animals, humans included, emerged as an important research problem right after the discovery of the double helix, G.N Ramchandran (GNR), a young Indian scientist at the University of  Madras, took up this topic as his main r...

It is rare to find scholarly classics whose authors were not eager to be acknowledged, but such is the case of Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens (1777), a founding treatise of Indology and a classic of early anthropology whose real author remained obscured for two centuries. That the mystery endured so...

Ethnoscientists play an invaluable role as exponents of biological and cultural diversity. This role has frequently been compromised, however, by the discipline’s close association with powerful imperial and colonial interests. This paper examines this tension in twentieth-century Philippines, wit...

During the later half of the first millennium BCE, Babylonian astrologers utilized two separate micro-zodiac schemes that partitioned a single zodiacal sign in different ways. On the one hand, the ‘micro-zodiac of 13’ synchronized the movements of sun and moon, by linking changes in the sun’s...

This paper will provide a short overview of the emergence of history of science courses in Japanese colleges after World War II. The postwar reform of the Japanese education system was performed under the control of the occupying General Headquarters of the Allied Forces (GHQ). The Civil Information...