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== Khirbet el-Maqatir ==
== Khirbet el-Maqatir ==
Wood disagreed with Albright's identification of et-Tell as the Biblical Ai that was burned by Joshua, favoring instead the site with the modern name Khirbet el-Maqatir one km to the west. The et-Tell site was not occupied during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze ages, whereas Khirbet el-Maqatir yielded pottery from the Middle Bronze, Late Bronze I, and Iron Age I periods. A significant find here was the ruins of a Late Bronze fortress. Wood's publication of results came to the preliminary conclusion "that the LB I fortress meets the Biblical requirements to be tentatively identified as the fortress 'Ai, referred to in Josh. 7-8."<ref>Bryant G. Wood, Khirbet el-Maqatir, 1995 – 1998," ''Israel Exploration Journal'' 50 (2000), 129.</ref> Wood has received preliminary authorizations to resume excavations at the site in the summer of 2009. Wood's colleague David Livingston has suggested nearby Khirbet Nisya as another possibility for Ai.
Wood disagreed with Albright's identification of et-Tell as the Biblical Ai that was burned by Joshua, favoring instead the site with the modern name Khirbet el-Maqatir one km to the west. The et-Tell site was not occupied during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages, whereas Khirbet el-Maqatir yielded pottery from the Middle Bronze, Late Bronze I, and Iron Age I periods. A significant find here was the ruins of a Late Bronze fortress. Wood's publication of results came to the preliminary conclusion "that the LB I fortress meets the Biblical requirements to be tentatively identified as the fortress 'Ai, referred to in Josh. 7-8."<ref>Bryant G. Wood, Khirbet el-Maqatir, 1995 – 1998," ''Israel Exploration Journal'' 50 (2000), 129.</ref> Wood has received preliminary authorizations to resume excavations at the site in the summer of 2009. Wood's colleague David Livingston has suggested nearby Khirbet Nisya as another possibility for Ai.
== Debate over date of the fall of [[Jericho]] ==
== Debate over date of the fall of [[Jericho]] ==