Caratteri formali e funzionali delle “acropoli protostoriche”. Una selezione tra area egeo- anatolica e Italia continentale

The focus of this paper is a formal and functional analysis of the acropolis models in the Aegean-Anatolian area and mainland Italy between the Aegean EH II and the Italian Early Iron Age (first III millennium-VIII a.C.). This analysis derives from the Seminar Study held in 2017 at the graduate school of Archeology in Matera. During the seminar study it was decided to extend the acropolis examination also towards proto-historical chronological horizons to try to establish to what extent and in what way the acropolis model was used. The wide geographical and chronological scenario considered in the paper will highlight the main differences found, which do not allow to trace a common mo- del, but also offer interesting food for thought connected with the socio-economic developments of the communities to which they belong.