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A major aim in morphology, for many years, was to conceptualize modes of decay rather than those of the persistence of past forms. For example, R. Chevallier proposed the criterion of “visible wear” for dating visible objects in a landscape:

Using the criterion of “visible wear”, within the framework of a morphological series, the structure which presents the most worn appearance is likely to be the oldest. Objects in a series may be arranged in order of decreasing sharpness: structures can be more or less “fresh”, more or less decayed by the effects of time, to the point where they become like ghosts... (Chevallier 1971, p. 108)ssss1

In 1983, Gérard Chouquer proposed a model for explaining the degradation and fossilization of centuriated cadastral plans (Chouquer 1983). According to this model, the original, regular centuriations were transformed as a result of the polarization of the road network around medieval grouped habitats (ssss1)ssss1.

ssss1 Theoretical illustration of the decay of a centuriated cadastral system (inspired by Chouquer 1983; Robert, 2020)