The Senate of the University of Cadiz has received the archaeologist Francisco Giles Pacheco as Doctor Honoris Causa 4 November 2022
He was the director for more than 30 years of the Museum of El Puerto de Santa María and the discoverer of the first Neanderthal engraving in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar.
The University of Cadiz celebrated the Solemn Act of investiture of Francisco Giles Pacheco as Doctor Honoris Causa in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. The Rector of the UCA, Francisco Piniella, presided over the ceremony, which could be followed live by videostreaming, in the company of a representation of the University Senate and academic, civil and military authorities.
The Senate of the University of Cadiz, at the proposal of the Governing Council of the UCA, ratified last September 2022 the granting of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Francisco Giles Pacheco, a proposal approved by the Governing Council in May 2022, as established in article 232 of the Statutes of the UCA and article 4 of the Regulations governing the procedure for the awarding of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
