Date of appointment: 15 december 1983.
By proposal of: Faculty of Geography and History.
Date of investiture: 29 november 1985.
Sponsor: Dr. Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto and Dr. Marcos Alfonso Baldó Lacomba.
Domingo Fletcher Valls was born in Valencia on August 19, 1912.
From 1930 to 1934 he studied the History Degree at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Valencia. He obtained the extraordinary Bachelor's Award in 1936.
Positions held:
- Provincial Commissioner of archaeological excavations
- Provincial Delegate of the National Historical Patrimony
- Chronicler of the City of Valencia
- Head of the Prehistory Section of the CSIC of Valencia
- Collaborator of the SIP and the Museu de Prehistòria de València (1930-1950)
- Director of the SIP and the Museum of Prehistory (1950-1982)
Distinctions:
- Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History
- Member of the number of the Hispanic Society of New York
- Corresponding member of the Dutsches Archälogisches Intitut Berlin
- Honorary Member of the Associação dos Arqueologos Portugueses
- Corresponding member of the Société Préhistorique de l'Ariège
- Conde de Lumiares Prize of the Alicante City Council
- Martorell d'Arqueologia Prize of the Diputació de Barcelona
- Cerdá Reig Prize of the Institució Alfons el Magnànim de València
