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Within a few decades, the assessment of foreign presence and its influence between the Rhine and the Pyrenees has undergone a major change. While archeologists used previously to refer essentially to the Greek settlement at Agde (Hérault) and to the economic and cultural influence of Emporion (Spain) over the indigenous sites north of the Pyrenees, investigations and discoveries of the last decades induce us to reconsider the whole issue. The coast of eastern Languedoc was more intensively frequented than was thought and further West, beside sites long since known, others provide a fresh contribution to the understanding of the functioning of a complex economic system set up since the VIIth c. B.C., involving Greeks, natives and other partners in a geographic area at the meeting point of the routes of sea and land.