The city of Jericho developed in oasis around an abundant spring near the Jordan River in the West Bank. The Natufian hunter-gatherers started the regular inhabitation ca 10500 BC.Ca 8500 thr settlement became a village surrounded by a 6m wall with an 8m tower. At the beginning of the third millennium a fortified city arose.
See:
- https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/jericho
- http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/Jericho.html
- Kathleen M. Kenyon; Thomas A. Holland, Excavations at Jericho: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, London, 1960-1983
- John Charles Hugh Laughlin, Fifty Major Cities of the Bible: From Dan to Beersheba, Taylor & Francis, 2006, pp. 150-152
- http://members.bib-arch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=4&Issue=4&ArticleID=3
- Kathleen Mary Kenyon, Digging up Jericho: The results of the Jericho excavations, 1952-1956