National Geographic History - 03.2019 - 04.2019

MARCH/ APRIL 2019 STONE AGE CITY LIFE CLOSE QUARTERS I N Ç ATA L H ÖY Ü K COSMIC CONTROVERSY THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF COPERNIC ...

I n the early 1930s watch manufacturers took a clue from Henry Ford’s favorite quote concerning his automobiles, “You can have a ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor History’s mysteries are often solved by teams working ...

STONE AGECITY LIFE CLOSE QUARTERSI N Ç ATA L H ÖY Ü K CONTROVERSYCOSMIC IDEAS OF COPERNICUSTHE REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTING WORDS YELL ...

4 NEWS A new find reveals beer was being brewed 13,000 years ago, suggesting ancient humans were meeting for “happy hour” even b ...

NEWS Archaeological Science: Reports, cereal-based beer was being consumed some 13,000 years ago. Researchers from Stan- ford Un ...

THE DISCOVERYin northern Israel of beer production some 13,000 years ago falls into the same timescale as the oldest known trace ...

6 MARCH/APRIL 2019 PROFILES Mesmer: Master of Animal Magnetism In the late 18th century this German doctor’s magnetic therapy se ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 7 objects that she believed were magnets or that were connected with Mesmer, but not other magnets h ...

8 MARCH/APRIL 2019 PROFILES soon found himself inundated with as many as 20 patients a day. The baquet thus became his self-devi ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 9 MESMER (with his back turned) conducts a therapy session in Paris, employing a large ellipticalbaq ...

DAILY LIFE stone of the East proved the success of Pompey’s conquering armies and helped elevate his profile as a strong command ...

around the end of the first century B.C. and the beginning of the first century A.D., when the trade route with the East through ...

SHOWING OFF a pearl necklace, a woman displays her collection of jewels. Fresco from the Palace of Constantine in Trier. Fourth ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 13 on crowns, and on hair combs. Pearls were sewn onto dresses and even onto the straps of their san ...

CLOSE QUARTERS Beginning in the 1960s, work at Çatalhöyük (in central Turkey) has unearthed numerous levels of close-knit househ ...

ÇATALHÖYÜK THE FIRST STEPS TO CITY LIFE CRISTINA BELMONTE Settled more than 9,000 years ago on Turkey’s Konya Plain, Çatalhöyük ...

16 MARCH/APRIL 2019 IN PLAIN SITE Çatalhöyük (above) sits on the Konya Plain in Turkey. Its eastern mound (right) was settled ab ...

Residents buried the dead under their homes. At its peak, the town housed as many as 8, people, who supported themselves through ...

TOP: BRUNO COSSA/FOTOTECA 9X12. RIGHT: MAURICIO ABREU/AWL-IMAGES Mountain or Man-Eater? HASAN DA÷I, A DORMANT, 10,500- FOOT-HIGH ...