Reimagining urban success: rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC–AD 600

The ancient city of Gabii—an Italian polity the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome—has often been presented as an example urban decline, counterpoint Rome's rise from collection hilltop huts Mediterranean hegemon. Here authors draw on results recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity site over course 1400 years highlights shifting values rhythms materialised in maintenance, transformation abandonment different components. This complex picture adaptation resilience provides model urbanism calls into question outdated narratives success failure.