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?