[1] The area is located within the 2015 inaugurated "Valle de los Neandertales" ("Valley of the Neanderthals”) archaeological park.

[4] Cueva Des-Cubierta was unearthed accidentally during a land survey in spring 2006 meant to focus on a different, previously found site.

[7] The zigzagging cave has a main gallery with at least five openings, measuring 87 m in length and 1-4.5 m wide at an altitude of 1,112 m, preserved due to surface breccia and infilling protecting the site from erosion.

[1] Major figures in the discovery and excavation of the site are Enrique Baquedano (archaeologist and director of Regional Archaeological Museum of the Community of Madrid),[4] paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, and geologist Alfredo Pérez González.

[11] Radiocarbon dating was used on bone remains at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, and Uranium-thorium dating was used on speleothems at the Uranium Series Laboratory of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) and the Geochronology Laboratory of the Jaume Almera Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC).

[12] The collection of large herbivore skulls at Level 3 of the site has been proposed to be a significant 2023 finding in paleomammalogy in that it may have had ritualistic/symbolic meaning to Neanderthals.