According to a working hypothesis, the settling in both the lowlands and at the Tash bair was significantly influenced by the development of the river courses. In addition, the degree of preservation of the sites is very much dependent on erosion and sedimentation processes. The research on river history in the Yantra estuary is therefore an essential part of the project; it is carried out by a working group of the Geographical Institute of the KU Leuven (Belgium). For the reconstruction and dating of the river meanders, drillings and geoelectric measurements were carried out. The results are being evaluated as part of a master's thesis at KU Leuven.
On the southern middle slope of the Tash bair, directly at the break-off edge, two parallel, circular ditches are clearly visible in aerial photographs and in the map of the geomagnetic measurements. The excavations in summer 2018 focused on the inner ditch and two small anomalies in the interior, which were identified as a pit and a gutter-like, anthropogenic depression. The 14C samples date the ditch into the 20th/19th centuries BC and thus at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. The two structures in the interior, however, were only created in the Late Bronze Age (14th/13th centuries BC), so that two main occupation phases can be seen. The date of the outer trench is still unknown for the time being, so that not all questions regarding the history of the site have been answered.