Eurasian palaeoanthropology has traditionally placed significant emphasis on dispersals, predominantly from Africa. Examples include initial Oldowan, Acheulean and Upper Paleolithic/microlithic technologies, based on their ages being younger than African records. While indigenous/regional innovations have been recognized in Acheulean and Levallois technologies, it has been challenging to prove the same for Mode 1 technologies. Likewise, multiple dispersals of prehistoric Homo sapiens reflect diachronic and geographic disparities across Asia, explicitly illustrating how the spread of prehistoric Homo sapiens is virtually decoupled from the spread and regional developments of Levallois, laminar and microlithic technologies. When did specific technocomplexes lose their original identities before subsequently developing regionally distinct characteristics over time? This session welcomes case studies from across Asia and Australasia, to bring concepts related to indigenous innovations and cultural identity in deep prehistory to the forefront. Data can be related to archaeology, subsistence, environmental adaptations, landscape dynamics, faunal contexts, ecological and climatic conditions and so forth. The primary goal is to move away from the often-casual over-emphasis on dispersal event(s) without adequate and convincing empirical evidence for the same. In other words, we want to better identify the processes about how dispersal events become regionally indigenous by losing their original characters.