The most revelatory part of K could be its human remains: skeletons of several
individuals crushed under cedar beams in the Canaanite city of burnt red brick in the 10th century B.C.; and 22 people entombed under a single floor of a house dating to the Middle
Bronze Age.
They detected Y. pestis in seven people, ranging from
Bronze Age skeletons that dated back as early as 4800 years ago in Russia, Estonia, and Poland, to an Iron
Age individual who lived almost 3000 years ago in Armenia.