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ABSTRACT
The Marine Ventures project seeks to increase our understanding of the early relations between humans and the sea, especially subsistence and maritime voyaging. Through comparative analysis, we are interested in how hunter-gatherer societies have adapted to environmental, material, and social surroundings in two different, yet similar settings: the archipelagos of Scandinavia and Patagonia. The similarities and differences in the natural and cultural settings of the two regions are a valuable source for comparison that shed light on the general dynamics of human environmental interactions and regional landscape and social histories. Marine Ventures addresses these problems in four interrelated components: 1) colonizing seascapes and the dynamics of the development of marine foraging; 2) interactions between logistics (boats) and settlements; 3) dwelling types and settlement structure; and 4) legislation and heritage management. The Norway/Tierra del Fuego comparisons include a variety of distinct methodological, theoretical, and cultural heritage management approaches. The broad comparative framework of the Marine Ventures project is an approach that should be useful for archaeologists working in island and coastal settings around the world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Marine Ventures (2011–2014) is owned and managed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in cooperation with the Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), part of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Argentina. The project is supported by the Research Counsel of Norway (project 208828). Project members are Professor Hein B. Bjerck (project leader), Head of Department/Associate Professor Birgitte Skar, Ph.D. candidates Silje Fretheim and Heidi Mjelva Breivik, M.A. candidates Magnhild Husøy, Karen Ørbogen Oftedal, and Elisabeth Swensen (NTNU). Argentinean key partners are Lic. Ernesto Piana and Dr. Atilio Francisco Zangrando, researchers from CADIC-CONICET, who currently are conducting archaeological investigations in the Southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. Additional information can be found at http://www.ntnu.no/vitenskapsmuseet/marine-ventures;http://www.cadic-conicet.gob.ar/. We thank three anonymous reviewers and the JICA editors for valuable input that helped us to improve this article.