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The earliest studies of landscape forms adopted a diachronic approach, considering past and present in parallel; in the decades following the Second World War, however, a synchronic approach came to dominate the field. This approach is built around a strata-based framework where the present buries, and effectively cancels out, the past. Observations made in the course of rescue archaeology in the 1990s challenged this stratified vision of landscapes, highlighting the true complexity of temporalities, while increasingly strong cross-disciplinary connections between historians, archeologists and environmental specialists changed perceptions of the relationships between societies and environments. These developments formed the backdrop for a resurgence of interest in morphological analysis of historical landscapes, culminating in the emergence of a whole new discipline: archeogeographyssss1. This approach promotes a vision of landscape in which the links between man and milieu play a key role, moving beyond the simple nature/culture division. In this first part, we shall consider the way in which past authors, from the late 19th century onward, envisioned the relationship between space and time in a landscape. We shall also explain why modern archeogeographers must move beyond the morphological analysis methods developed during this earlier period, demonstrating the need for a new and innovative theoretical framework.