Dr Andrea Brock,

Since 2013, I have led a collaborative project of a deep coring survey in the heart of Rome. The results are shedding new light on Rome’s pre-urban landscape, as well as evidence for significant instability and change in the Tiber River valley that occurred alongside urban growth at Rome in the mid-1^st millennium BCE. The early Romans, therefore, had to adapt to a dynamic riverine environment and significant urban flooding.