Battles Don't Show in Archaeology

Did the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Really Happen?
Caleb Howells | 18 oct. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B-ZTyO5nWc

1:45 Jericho's walls that fell included rubble dated to 2200--2400 BC. As far as I'm concerned, that was building material and the real date thereof was 1600's BC, during the Egyptian Soujourn.

Jericho's abandonment of population is dated to 1550. As far as I'm concerned, that's when Jericho was taken, except the carbon date 1550 corresponds to real date 1470, 40 years after the Exodus in 1510.

The atmosphere reached 100 pmC only in 1179, when Troy fell (if you accept that date, which I for one do).

1:45 bis ... wait! Was Kenyon's 1550 date based on bichrome pottery rather than on any C14 at all?

That would take away the latest of my pre-Troy nodes for History vs Carbon Dates.

Not a huge problem, just worth noting if you answer.

9:36 I think even Waterloo is archaeologically invisible. At least since bones were reused as fertiliser.