sentences:  After this there was a hiatus until later Iron Age material dating to around the seventh century BCE.They did not find substantial evidence for renewed occupation in the Late Bronze Age at the time of Joshua and the biblical story of the Battle of Jericho, which in general agreed with the earlier statement by Watzinger that "in the time of Joshua, Jericho was a heap of ruins, on which stood perhaps a few isolated huts".Perhaps the most important discovery was evidence that the earliest wall dated to around 8000 BCE.