I suspect that this may be more a classpath related issue on the EMR Cluster, than a Maven one, if you already checked that your artifact has any of that old dependencies.

Please check these other issues: Spark EMR job jackson error - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError - AnnotatedMember.getType()Lcom/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JavaType

How do I set my EMR Classpath

Also in those case, there was a conflict on a Jackson library that was provided in the cluster.