During the summer of 1984, William G. Dever, the excavator of Gezer,^a returned to the site after more than a decade’s absence for a check-up probe. Dever claims to have laid to rest dating questions relating to the great outer wall—based on materials uncovered in the final hours of the season. The excavation, not surprisingly, provides further support for a conclusion previously reached by the excavator—that the wall dates to the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400 B.C. to 1375 B.C.). Whether the numerous Israeli archaeologists who date the wall to the Iron Age II (c. ninth century B.C.) will be convinced remains to be seen.^b