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More than 25 years together with Professor Walker Torre-Pacheco and even more with Dolores de Pacheco, El Cabezo Gordo and the Sima de las Palomas.
A joint proposal of all local political groups rose to the full past the title of "Honorary Citizen of Torre-Pacheco Don Michael John Walker".
Born in the UK 75 years ago, is currently paleoantropólo and professor emeritus at the University of Murcia.
Linking Professor Walker Torre-Pacheco is inextricably linked to the Sima de las Palomas Cabezo Gordo and dates back to 1990, a year before the discovery of the first Neandertal fossil in this settlement, when she visited him in the company of several experts in geology and paleontology.
After this visit, in January 1991, he filed a brief with the Regional Centre for Archaeology recommending the realization, as a matter of urgency, a program of exploration projects, rescue and paleontological study of fossiliferous stations and gaps Cabezo Fat.
The lack of economic resources advised to postpone the presentation of the project until autumn.
Later came the mandible and maxilla Neanderthal that accelerated the whole process, scientific research beginning in 1992, and since then codirector of it.
In July 1994, the tower of scaffolding that allowed that summer, the beginning of the official excavations without interruption to date was installed.
Every summer there is a campaign of excavations at the Sima de las Palomas Cabezo Gordo, making Torre-Pacheco in his second home.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of this prehistoric site that, season after season, continues to provide and increasing the archaeological heritage with new fossils, making the Sima de las Palomas at the site of Neanderthal Man's most important Mediterranean Basin held Spanish and the second in importance on Fossil Man in the Iberian Peninsula, valued and studied by the international scientific community.
The Act appointment of Adoptive Son to D. Michael J. Walker will take place within the activities planned to mark the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the archaeological site of the Sima de las Palomas, turn coinciding with the celebration of the 180th anniversary of the constitution of the City of Torre-Pacheco, on 17 September.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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