Qualla: Nataruk https://qualla.com/nataruk en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/3/x/nataruk-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nataruk https://qualla.com/nataruk Nataruk: Introduction https://qualla.com/nataruk/ Photo credit Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr, CC0. Among the dead was a woman in the last weeks of pregnancy, her hands apparently bound. She lay where she fell, beside men, women, and children who would not be buried, on the shore of a lake that no longer exists. They had been dead for roughly ten thousand years when researchers found them in 2012, scattered across a stretch of dried mud near a place in Turkana County called Nataruk. Twenty-seven people in all. What happened to them has become one of the most debated questions in the study of human violence - and a reminder that the people at the heart of it were exactly that. People.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/3/x/nataruk-wp/sb3x-nataruk-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nataruk: The People of the Lakeshore https://qualla.com/nataruk/ Photo credit Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr, CC0. They were hunter-gatherers, and they had chosen well. Ten thousand years ago Nataruk sat at the edge of a shallow, fertile arm of Lake Turkana - a long beach that drew animals to drink and made for superb fishing, the richest such ground in that part of the basin. Forested deltas...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/3/x/nataruk-wp/sb3x-nataruk-the-people-of-the-lakeshore.mp3 0:06 2 full Nataruk: What the Bones Record https://qualla.com/nataruk/ Photo credit Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr, CC0. The injuries are hard to read and harder to forget. Dr. Marta Mirazón Lahr and her colleagues, excavating as part of the IN-AFRICA Project, described extreme blunt-force trauma to skulls and cheekbones, broken hands and knees and ribs, arrow wounds to the neck, and stone projecti...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/3/x/nataruk-wp/sb3x-nataruk-what-the-bones-record.mp3 0:06 3 full Nataruk: Massacre, or Something Else? https://qualla.com/nataruk/ Photo credit Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr, CC0. Not everyone agrees, and the disagreement matters. In a formal response in Nature, the anthropologist Christopher Stojanowski and colleagues challenged the interpretation on two grounds. Much of the apparent injury, they argued, could have happened after death - as bodies were cr...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/3/x/nataruk-wp/sb3x-nataruk-massacre-or-something-else.mp3 0:06 4 full Nataruk: How Old Is War? https://qualla.com/nataruk/ Photo credit Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr, CC0. Nataruk lands a blow on a comfortable assumption. Organized violence, the old thinking went, arrived with settled life - with farms, granaries, property, and the walls built to defend them. But Nataruk's people owned no fields and stored no harvest, and still, on at least one rea...

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