Yonas Beyene

Yonas Beyene is an Ethiopian archaeologist. He is known for his works on the Paleolithic archaeology of Konso[1] and the Middle Awash, Ethiopia.[2][3] Recently, he prepared the Nomination Files that eventually led to the registration of the Konso Cultural Landscape of southern Ethiopia in UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2011.[4]

He graduated from Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, in 1991.

He is a Program Director in the Association for Research and Conservation of Culture and a research affiliate of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa.

References
  1. Beyene, Yonas; Katoh, Shigehiro; WoldeGabriel, Giday; Hart, William K.; Uto, Kozo; Sudo, Masafumi; Kondo, Megumi; Hyodo, Masayuki; Renne, Paul R. (2013-01-29). "The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (5): 1584–1591. doi:10.1073/pnas.1221285110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3562807. PMID 23359714.
  2. "Middle Awash Project Leadership". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  3. "We Were Creative Before We Were Human". Art Papers. 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. "INTERVIEW WITH Yonas Beyene". INTERVIEW WITH Yonas Beyene. Retrieved 2017-11-16.


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