New in softcover. Hardcover was published in 2022. Explores the peopling of the maritime region of Northeast Asia over the last 40,000 years, examining the transition of hunter-gatherers to the use of aquatic resources. From the Contents: 2. Synthetic perspective on prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptation and landscape change in northern Japan.- 3. Over the Water into and out of the Japanese Archipelago during the Pleistocene: Humans, Obsidian, and Lithic Techniques.