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Between Agde and Pech Maho: Phocaeans and emporia in western Languedoc (southern France) during the 6th-5th centuries BC

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From the sixth century BC, following the phocean fundations of Massalia (Marseille) and Emporion (Empuries), the region of the Gulf of Lion is quickly integrated into a economical network turned to the Mediterranean world, based on a series of settlements operating as market places. The nature of theses settlements, most of the time on the coast, is at the centre of the research leaded in Languedoc since several decades. The fundamentally indigenous character of these sites dedicated to trade and exchange, widely open to products coming from the Mediterranean and especially those from the phocean trade, is qualified by a series of documents giving evidences of the presence into these communities, of foreign individuals or groups, often Greeks, but also Etruscan or Iberian. The role played by the colonial world in the construction of this emporic system is decisive, but the dynamic of the native societies was for a long time underestimated. The acceptance or the reject of contact is traduced by different logics of location and different modes of operation, according to the different geographical and cultural areas extended from Provence to the Pyreneans. In front of the phocean system organised in the Rhône region (eastern Languedoc), western Languedoc appears like a more complex zone, turned both to Massalia and Emporion. The lower valleys of the rivers Hérault and Aude appears since the seventh century BC as major points of attraction for the Mediterranean trade. The sixth century BC is synonymous of the creation, on the coast, of new settlements acting as interface with the Mediterranean sea. Agde, in the mouth of the Hérault river, and Pech Maho, in the southern part of the lagoons corresponding in the mouth of the Aude river, reflect this generic model of the emporion, but knew different beginnings and destiny, revealing the complexity of interactions between the native and the phocean world.
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halshs-03757485 , version 1 (22-08-2022)

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Eric Gailledrat. Between Agde and Pech Maho: Phocaeans and emporia in western Languedoc (southern France) during the 6th-5th centuries BC. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze. Ionians in the West and East, 27, Peeters Publishers, pp.723-748, 2022, Colloquia Antiqua, 9789042942479. ⟨halshs-03757485⟩
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