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Yonas Beyene | |
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| Citizenship | Ethiopia |
| Alma mater | Wolkite University |
| Occupation | Archeologist |
| Awards | Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences |
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.