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History

INTERVIEW

Lourdes Sola: The transitions of democracy

A pioneer in Brazilian political science, the researcher speaks on the relationship between politics and economics

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History

The representation of a hero

The image of Tiradentes overcame the lack of visual records and became one of the most popular from Brazil’s history

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UFRJ – 100 YEARS

Two years after the fire

The Brazilian National Museum has recovered 90% of the artifacts not totally destroyed by the flames and has raised almost 45% of the funding it needs to begin reconstruction in 2021

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Museology

Revisiting and reclaiming the past

Researchers and native peoples discuss repatriation of artifacts taken during colonial eras

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UFRJ – 100 Years

A century-long heritage

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has reached its 100th anniversary as one of the most productive institutions in Brazil

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Archaeology

Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca

A stone box made of volcanic rock found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca is helping archaeologists to better understand the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Incan Empire

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Archival science

Not to be forgotten

After 16 years cataloging collections and tracking down missing documentary heritage, Brazil’s national committee for the Memory of the World program was suspended in 2019

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Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

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History

The first voyages across the Pacific

The first inhabitants of Polynesia had contact with native peoples from the Americas just over 800 years ago

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History

Inked

From the margins of society to iconic pop culture; study reconstructs the history of tattooing in Brazil

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Retrospect

In the palm of the hand

A São Paulo physician developed a portable respirator in the 1950s

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Archaeology

The new dimensions of Ur

Ur may have occupied an area up to eight times greater than previously estimated by archaeologists in the 1980s

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Collections

Retrieving the history of science

Documents newly digitized by the SBPC Heritage Center provide a fresh glimpse into the Society’s past

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Genetics

America, the African mosaic

The transatlantic slave trade shaped the genetic makeup of populations across North and South America

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History

A feast for historians

New studies help to explain how changing eating habits shaped culture and the economy in São Paulo and Recife

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Paleoanthropology

Diaspora 2.5 million years ago

Chipped stone artifacts found in Jordan may be evidence of archaic humans leaving Africa 400,000 years earlier than previously thought

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History

Memories of drought

Researchers and social movements join forces to ensure the listing of a Ceará concentration camp

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Science spaces

Pesquisa FAPESP articles have presented interesting places for science tourism

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Interview

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt: The rainforest archaeologist

Excavations in South America helped the American researcher reinterpret how Amazonia was occupied before European colonization

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Archaeology

New glyphs found in the Peruvian desert

Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings—or geoglyphs—of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru

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Retrospect

Teaching a trade

Established in 1909, Escolas de Aprendizes Artífices were the start of a technical education network that now has federal institutes spread across 644 campuses

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Deconstructing myths

Pesquisa FAPESP followed the development of pioneering research on the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government in Brazil

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Retrospect

Early flight

A northeastern military officer built two domestically developed airplane models that flew successfully in 1917 and 1918

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Literature

Revisiting Machado de Assis

In the 180th anniversary of his birth, research shows how the novelist went from displaced to central author in Brazil's literary history

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Cover

In the British expedition’s shadow

The Sobral eclipse was also observed by scientific expeditions from Brazil and the US

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Retrospect

The lost flies of genetics

On the centenary of the birth of Crodowaldo Pavan, who was central to the development of Brazilian genetics, insects continue to spur research

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Archival science

Memories Revealed

The unpublished collections of Celso Furtado and Joaquim Nabuco recently donated to research institutions promise new revelations

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Evolution

3.8-million-year-old skull

A nearly complete hominid skull dated at 3.8 million years old has led to new conclusions about the origins of the genus

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Retrospect

An ecologist in the New World

Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt explored the Americas in the early nineteenth century and alerted the world to human impact on the environment

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Archaeology

Incans charged agricultural tax

A specific type of quipu may be the first evidence that taxes were collected by the ancient Incan empire

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