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Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht, “Tell Es-Sultan (Jericho): Radiocarbon Results … from the End of the Middle Bronze Age” (1995)

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Jericho

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Primary radiocarbon evidence for the date range of the final Middle Bronze Age destruction

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Tell es-Sultan has fortifications and destruction phases, but identifying a particular layer with the Joshua event remains disputed rather than established.

Answer / theory: The site has walls and destruction phases, but the simple popular match to Joshua is not established. What supports it: Real fortifications and destruction evidence exist at Jericho. What is weak or disputed: Chronology and identification with the biblical event.
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Joshua 6 attests a conquest and wall-collapse tradition, but Tell es-Sultan archaeology does not securely prove the story exactly as popularly told.

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