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1 ssss1 https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/morphologie, accessed July 24, 2020.

2 ssss1 The French term is archeogeographie; in English, the term “landscape archeology” is also widespread.

Humanity has long been aware that certain constructions persist beyond the societies that shaped them. As early as the early Middle Ages, printed works and iconographic representations highlighted the presence of ancient constructions in the urban fabric of the city of Rome (D’Amico 2009). These constructions are presented as anchoring elements, ensuring that the city itself remained “eternal” (Djament-Tran 2011). Roads were also identified as permanent features of the landscape (D’Urban 1837, p. 415), and their continued presence is reflected in place names. The persistence of these roads was perceived locally by users well before Nicolas Bergier, a magistrate, made his first theoretical proposals in the early 17th century concerning the conditions under which these great ancient routes had survived the centuries (Bergier 1622).