Inspired by Freudenthal's didactical phenomenology, in this and a series of subsequent papers, didactical analysis of geometric concepts in primary school programmes is undertaken. In this paper, spontaneous concept of shape is reflected historically, covering shortly handworks and decorations of human beings from the far archaeological past. Some samples of inherent geometrical ideas from ethnomathematics are also included. At the end, the birth of the first Greacian schools is touched and the beginnings of science are reflected.