Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

How about a straight archaeological question concerning the MB walls 
of Jericho which Ian mentions several times. For I am confused about 
the detailed scenario here. Do these walls now survive? Are they now 
standing upright, or have they fallen down, or are they partly 
upright? (Was one of your arguments that these cannot be the walls 
which fell in Joshua's time as they are still upright, or did I 
misunderstand you?) How long (according to normal archaeological 
reckoning) would such walls have remained upright, not buried and 
looking like real city walls rather than ruins? Does the answer depend 
on whether the city was inhabited or abandoned during this period?

Peter