“…This has been possible thanks to systematic studies of the archaeological record generated by preventive archaeology in different areas of the Roman West (Smith et al, 2016;Allen et al, 2017;Reddé, 2017Reddé, , 2018Bowes, 2020;Bermejo and Grau, 2022). These recent studies reinterpret the economic models previously described by traditional historiography (Kron, 2008(Kron, , 2017Ouzoulias, 2014), as well as a much more precise characterisation of the Roman rural habitat. These preventive excavations have brought to light archaeological sites belonging to settlements quite different from the monumental villae, revealing the existence of habitats compatible with settlements characterised in other contexts as peasant type (Chayanov, 1966;Sahlins, 1972;Netting, 1993).…”