Correction to: Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia

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The original version of the book was inadvertently published with the following corrections, which have now been updated.1. Book sub title have been inserted as "With a Foreword by Dr. William W. Fitzhugh".2. Foreword information inserted in the Book Back Cover Text.3. Chapter "Tracking the Adoption of Early Pottery Traditions into Maritime Northeast Asia: Emerging Insights and New Questions" co-authors names are corrected as in below:From "Viktor M. Diakonov" to "Viktor M. Dyakonov" From "Elena A. Solovyova" to "Elena N. Solovyova" Author Viktor M. Dyakonov's acknowledgement inserted. 4. Chapter "Maritime Prehistory of Korea: An Archaeological Review", following section headings 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1 and 4.2 are have been corrected.The chapters and the book has been updated with the changes.

Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands

“…Routes of maritime transport were given ritual protection by sites such as those on Okinoshima Island between Kyushu and Korea. However, the ability of ancient Japan to make ‘state space’ of the sea – again the term is from James Scott – was limited (Hudson, 2016 , in press-b ). The maritime spaces around Japan were increasingly utilised by non-state actors including merchants and pirates.…”

“…Given the low proportions (~10%) of the Jōmon genome in the Yayoi population of Kyushu (Robbeets et al, 2021 ), we can assume that local hunter–gatherers became absorbed by Yayoi farmers, from whom they adopted agriculture and language, although some groups may have developed specialised fishing and hunting adaptations even while experiencing gene flow from farming populations (Hudson, 2019 , in press-b ). After the dispersal of Mainland Japonic from Kyushu to Honshu and Shikoku around 200 BC, the remaining Kyushu–Ryukyuan speakers spread across Kyushu from the north to the southwest, where they further intermarried with local Jōmon populations.…”