The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has few Middle Palaeolithic sites, especially when compared to other areas of the Mediterranean Basin and the northern Spanish region. Few in number too are the zooarchaeological and taphonomic studies that throw light on the relationships between Neanderthal groups, their environment, and the use they made of it. The present work examines, both zooarchaeologically and taphonomically, the faunal remains of levels F and D of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain) - the largest collection of such remains ever studied from the Iberian interior. The results allow this site to be interpreted as a Neanderthal hunting camp where occupations were short-term. Neanderthal people were the main agents that accumulated the site's faunal remains - largely those of large bovids and to a lesser extent medium-sized cervids. The activity of carnivores was also identified, but these animals mostly left behind the remains of small prey or fed upon carcasses abandoned at the camp by human hunters.

伊比利亚半岛内部几乎没有旧石器时代中期遗址，尤其是与地中海盆地的其他地区和西班牙北部地区相比。揭示尼安德特人群体之间的关系、他们的环境以及他们对它的利用的动物考古学和埋藏学研究也很少。目前的工作从动物考古学和考古学两个方面对 Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter（Pinilla del Valle，西班牙马德里）的 F 级和 D 级动物遗骸进行了研究，这是迄今为止在伊比利亚内陆研究过的最大的此类遗骸收藏。结果使该站点被解释为一个尼安德特人狩猎营地，在那里职业是短期的。尼安德特人是积累该网站的主要代理人” s 动物群遗骸 - 主要是大型牛科动物和较小程度上的中型鹿科动物。也发现了食肉动物的活动，但这些动物大多留下小猎物的遗骸或以人类猎人遗弃在营地的尸体为食。