Dr Worku Derara Megenassa earned his BA in History and MA in Archaeology from Addis Ababa University and his PhD in History and Archaeology from Complutense University of Madrid. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and the head of the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management at Addis Ababa University. His research interests are ethnoarchaeology, megaliths, environment-culture interactions, cognitive archaeology, and iconography.