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A fact from Tower of Jericho appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 July 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the Tower of Jericho on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire proto-city in c. 8000 BCE?
How can the shadow of the mountains "hit" the tower before the city? Surely the tower, or at least the top of it (assuming that it was taller than the city), would be the last structure to be so affected? Maias (talk) 05:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest you watch the video in the Jerusalem post source to get a clear picture of the shadow dynamics. The base of the tower was located where the shadow of the mountain peak reached the town first at that time of year. Paul Bedson ❉talk❉ 22:49, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. Maias (talk) 00:52, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is a 1500-year discrepancy between the PPNA dates given by specialised archaeologists here, and the dates used by the WP articles on Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Jericho, the Wall of Jericho and the Tower of Jericho: ≈11,500–10,500 cal B.P. vs. 8000 to 7000 BC. The PNAS article is referring specifically to the PPNA site at Dhra', but Jericho is only a stone throw away, so regional differences can hardly play a part. Or is it connected to calibrated carbon dates vs. what has become common dating standards? Thanks, Arminden (talk) 19:50, 19 February 2016
And the jpost article contradicts itself by saying "about 8300 BC", "11,000 years ago", and "over 11,000 years old". Maybe someone is just bad at arithmetic?--2.204.226.243 (talk) 11:02, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The date of the PPNA-PPNB transition isn't settled but I haven't seen it pushed later than 10,600 BP (8600 BCE) in the S. Levant.[1] The 10,000 BP (8000 BCE) date for the tower of Jericho I think comes directly from Kenyon, but of course she was working well before it was possible to effectively radiocarbon date this period. I'm not sure if there are any more recent, direct dates on the tower that could reconcile the discrepancy. Neolithic Jericho in general is not the best-dated site.[2] – Joe (talk) 12:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
