 Excavations in 2003 and 2011, conducted by Prof. RK Mohanty of Deccan College and a multi-national team, showed that the site dates to the Neolithic Period (c.3500 BP).Archaeobotanical analysis showed that the people living at this site grew and ate rice, browntop millet, mung bean, horsegram, pigeon pea and citrus fruits.Zooarchaeological analysis shows that they ate cattle, nilgai, chital, wild pig and possibly buffalo.