This session explores the relevance of ethnoarchaeology in bridging past and present by examining how living cultural practices, material culture, and human behavior inform archaeological interpretation and enhance understanding of past lifeways. By documenting contemporary activities such as craft production, subsistence strategies, mobility, settlement patterns, ritual, social relations, and human-animal interactions, ethnoarchaeology provides frameworks for interpreting material culture and reassessing archaeological assumptions. We invite contributions showing how everyday practices can inform archaeological models, challenge linear narratives, and deepen understanding of human experiences across time and space. Using methods such as participant observation, ethnographic fieldwork, and collaboration with ethnic groups and Indigenous communities, ethnoarchaeological research reveals dynamic relationships among people, animals, materials, and landscapes. Papers may address craft and technological specialisation, seasonal mobility, identity and material expression, foodways, ritual practices, and landscape use in both lowland and highland environments. Case studies from diverse geographic and cultural contexts in South and Southeast Asia, as well as theoretical perspectives that expand the role of ethnoarchaeology are welcome. This session highlights how experimental, ethnographic, and collaborative approaches generate holistic frameworks for archaeology. It reframes artefacts and cultural practices not as static categories but as dynamic, culturall embedded activities sustained, transformed, and reinterpreted across generations.