9:00-9:20 - Introduction / Session organizers
9:20-9:40 - The Obirakhmatien in Central Asia: Local Transitional/IUP Versus Expansion of Levantine EMP / Andrey Krivoshapkin, Yossi Zaidner, Aliona Kharevich, Kseniya Kolobova
9:40-10:00 - Blade Production at Alabel 1: An Initial Upper Paleolithic Lithic Workshop in the Issyk-Kul Basin, Kyrgyzstan / Aida Abdykanova, Ana Abrunhosa, Francesco Valletta, Leonardo Marino, Baitour Toktosunov, Roman Dudenko, Saltanat Alisher, Stefano Benazzi, Francesco Berna, Omry Barzilai
10:00-10:20 - The Roaring Forties: Asian IUP At Its Chronological Extremities / Evgeny P. Rybin, Arina M. Khatsenovich, Ksenia A. Kolobova
10:20-10:40 - Is Korean Tanged Point a specialized projectile hunting weapon?: examining its age and technological characteristics in a broader context / Yongwook Yoo
10:40-11:00 - Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah region, West Central Zagros Mountains / Saman H. Guran
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-11:50 - Cultural and Population Dynamics during the Late Middle to Early Upper Palaeolithic: Regional Variability across the Iranian Plateau / Elhan Ghasidian, Saman H. Guran
11:50-12:10 - Technological Overlap And Local Adaptation In The Hanuman Dhara Lithic Assemblage, Central India / Pratik Pandey, Jose Tom Rapheal
12:10-12:30 - The Changing Behavioural Landscape of Paisra, India: Technological Adaptation across the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic / Jose Rapheal
12:30-12:50 - From Mousterian to Emiran: New Perspectives on the Late Middle Paleolithic and the Emergence of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in the Southern Levant / Omry Barzilai, Andrea Columbu, Stefano Benazzi, Francesco Berna
12:50-13:10 - Final debate