Yonas Beyene is an Ethiopian archaeologist. He is known for his works on the Paleolithic archaeology of

Konso Karat is a town in south-western Ethiopia and the capital of the Konso Zone in the new South Ethiopia Regional State. Situated 20 km north of the Sagan River at an elevation of , it is also called Pakawle by some of the neighboring inhabita ...

and the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Recently, he prepared the Nomination Files that eventually led to the registration of th
Konso Cultural Landscape
of southern Ethiopia in UNESCO's

World Heritage List World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritag ...

in 2011. He graduated from

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

, Paris, in 1991. He is a Program Director in th
Association for Research and Conservation of Culture
and a research affiliate of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa.

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