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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