The nature of the history of science - including both the definition of science and whether the English word "science" is a misleading term for pre-modern scholarship - is a topic of ongoing debate. The history of science is often seen as a …

In prehistoric times, knowledge and technique were passed from generation to generation in an oral tradition. For instance, the domestication of maize for agriculture has been dated to about 9,000 years ago in southern Mexico, before the …