El origen de las 'villae' romanas en Cataluña

This article wants to be an in-depth study of the rural setlements of Republican age on the coast of Catalonia (Spain). It will question the currently widely accepted interpretation of the beginning of the villa system at the end of the Ilnd century B.C. The last sites that have been excavated together with the revision of others previously studied, allow us to verify the importance of a changing indigenous population as opposed to a scarce «colonial» presence. From these facts a new model of historical interpretation is proposed