appeared with no evidence of initial conquest. The Iron I settlers seem to have peacefully built their village on the forsaken mound, without meeting resistance. One proposal to resolve this difficulty holds that the Bible's chronology of events is actually accurate, and the biblical Ai is not to be located at et-Tell, but a different site entirely. Bryant Wood has proposed that Ai should instead be located at the site of Khirbet el-Maqatir arguing that the evidence for this site being Ai is stronger than at et-Tell. External links Callaway, Joseph. "Ai." In David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol.1, p. 125–130. Doubleday, 1992. Callaway, Joseph. "Ai." In Ephraim Stern (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, p. 39–45. Simon & Schuster, 1993. References Populated places established in the 4th millennium BC Populated places disestablished in the 2nd millennium BC 11th-century BC disestablishments 1928 archaeological discoveries Archaeological sites in the West Bank Tell Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate Bronze Age sites in the State of Palestine