OK, thread:

a common but important phenomenon in earliest appearance of cities in Italy is civic architecture, usually temples, built atop Iron Age huts. The act seems intentional: elite power transforms into civic power.

#Twitterstorians, Can I have help making my checklist?
I'll start with what I know:

Latium is often seen as the core area: emblematic is Satricum (Mater Matuta) with hut directly below cella (L); at Ardea Colle della Noce (R), temple shares main axis with two huts (and adult burial) beneath.
Gabii ( @gabiiproject) has EIA huts everywhere: below the Santuario Orientale, I think below the Temple of Juno (right?), and below the so-called regia (with deference to my friend John Hopkins, it's not a regia)
In Rome itself, we have the Temple of the Vestals and the (real) Regia next door, both have EIA huts below them (one fantastically reimagined in the photo).

Also the "Romulean" huts of the Palatine (and Capitoline), but these don't show the same juxtaposition.
On the other side of the Palatine, there have now been EIA huts found below the area of the Sanctuary of the Curiae Veteres, new and exciting stuff skillfully excavated by C. Panella's équipe...
Moving to South Etruria, the temple at S. Antonio in Caere, again has burials AND an EIA hut (here from the great PBSR paper by V. Izzet)
Tarquinia's "monumental complex" at the old city centre of Civita has tons of relevant material, Edificio beta being the best possibility. Here, we are indebted to the work of Bonghi Jovino.
Veii has one EIA hut over a burial that become sites of cult, which is relevant, although I'm not sure we're talking of the same phenomenon... (thx for the reference here, @dr_bone_lady)
Moving further away to Campania, at Pontecagnano below the the Santuario Meridionale of the 6th c. BCE is a hut of the early 7th c. BCE
And really further afield, at the Oenotrian site of Timpone della Motta in Calabria shows this isn't just a Central Italian phenomenon (thx to @rometostandrews for pointing me towards this)
So it's a pan-Italian phenomenon, and there's lots to chew on while building an overarching interpretation.

But am I missing some sites? Anything else the many smart Iron Age Italy people on here know? cc: @diffendale @guyjbradley @tron918 @Massimi55157978 other folks?
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