The Prehistory Research Service (Servicio de Investigación Prehistórica, SIP) of the Diputación of Valencia and the Museum of Prehistory are founded in 1927 at the request of Isidro Ballester Tormo as a scientific institution dedicated to research, preserve and promote the archaeological heritage of Valencia.
In the museum have worked some of the most notable archaeologists of Spain Lluís Pericot Domingo Fletcher or Enrique Pla, who directed the SIP, or Miquel Tarradell Miracles Gil-Mascarell or Carmen Aranegui, who worked closely with this service.
Since its creation, the SIP developed an intense archaeological field work as in the Bastide de les Alcuses of Moixent, the Black Cave (Cova Negra) of Xàtiva, the Cova del Parpalló of Gandia or Tossal de Sant Miquel of Llíria.
The materials obtained from these excavations soon formed a collection whose scientific and heritage value has made the SIP and its museum one of the most important in Spain.

Currently, research projects cover all phases of the Prehistory and Antiquity of Valencia, with major actions developed in Cueva de Bolomor in Tavernes de la Valldigna, where appeared the oldest human remains in Valencian lands.
Also excavations are conducted at the Eneolithic sites of Fuente Flores y Cinto Mariano (Requena), in the Bronze Age sites of Lloma Betxí (Paterna) and Les Raboses (Albalat dels Tarongers), in the Iberian villages of Bastida de les Alcusses and Los Villares (Caudete de las Fuentes) and the Ibero-Roman city of La Carencia de (Turís).
The Prehistory Research Service (Servicio de Investigación Prehistórica, SIP) of the Diputación of Valencia and the Museum of Prehistory are founded in 1927 at the request of Isidro Ballester Tormo as a scientific institution dedicated to research, preserve and promote the archaeological heritage of Valencia. In the museum have worked some of the most notable archaeologists of Spain Lluís Pericot Domingo Fletcher or Enrique Pla, who directed the SIP, or Miquel Tarradell Miracles Gil-Mascarell or Carmen Aranegui, who worked closely with this service. Since its creation, the SIP developed an intense archaeological field work as in the Bastide de les Alcuses of Moixent, the Black Cave (Cova Negra) of Xàtiva, the Cova del Parpalló of Gandia or Tossal de Sant Miquel of Llíria. The materials obtained from these excavations soon formed a collection whose scientific and heritage value has made the SIP and its museum one of the most important in Spain.
Currently, research projects cover all phases of the Prehistory and Antiquity of Valencia, with major actions developed in Cueva de Bolomor in Tavernes de la Valldigna, where appeared the oldest human remains in Valencian lands. Also excavations are conducted at the Eneolithic sites of Fuente Flores y Cinto Mariano (Requena), in the Bronze Age sites of Lloma Betxí (Paterna) and Les Raboses (Albalat dels Tarongers), in the Iberian villages of Bastida de les Alcusses and Los Villares (Caudete de las Fuentes) and the Ibero-Roman city of La Carencia de (Turís).
Prehistory Museum of Valencia