Humans have devised, pursued and refined strategies for living with the sea throughout the times - our past is packed with experience, skills and knowledge. How did people in the past manage affordances and hazards contained in seascapes?

Marine Ventures comprise both in-depth and over-all comparative studies. Recent methodological and theoretical developments will be applied to improve knowledge of seascape living in four study areas around the world, all with particular information value. Living by the sea is a constant selection of affordances in balance with managing risks. Machine-Oriented-Ontology (MOO) compare this interplay to intricate machines, each and one dependant on their co-working parts. How parts intermingle varies vastly between cultural and environmental factors. Marine Ventures aim to identify and study their co-functions.

Primarily, the study is anchored in the existing collaboration with Norway and Tierra del Fuego, but the research network is expanded to British Columbia and New Zealand – the four corners. The project embraces five work packages (WPs):

• WP1 aspires to understand the mechanics of early developments in marine lifestyles, and the factors decisive for continuous use of specific sites.
• WP2 – emic geographies, how humans living within past machines comprehended essentials in their worlds; beliefs, rationales and strategies in silenced machines.
• WP3 applies the latest methods of remote sensing to envision the overall pattern and relative impact of seascape settlements in Tierra del Fuego and Norway.
• WP4 is about identifying diets and subsistence (also well-greased machines) by new methods of general importance: environmental aDNA in deposits with decomposed organic remains.
• WP5 synthesises marine ventures on different scales, and demonstrates how multifaceted methods and combined empirical research in four world corners expand knowledge of hazards and affordances of the machines of marine lifestyles.

2021
Unfortunately, the 2020 project application to the Norwegian Research Council did not allocate grants for the planned research in Marine Ventures. The research in the five WPs listed above have to be rearranged and down-scaled accordingly.