The modern village of Busavatë is located in the vicinity of the ancient site.

The site was discovered in 2016 during a field survey of the Archaeological Institute of Kosovo in the region.

[1] The site first developed in the Late Bronze Age.

Alaj (2019) has recorded the archaeological periodization of the site as follows: Busavatë I - LBA / II - EIA (8th-7th centuries BCE) / III - classical era (5th-4th centuries BCE)/ IV - Roman era / V - late antiquity/early medieval.

In the first period of the site in the Late Bronze Age it was as a hilltop settlement in a fortified position at an altitude of 725 m. Like other settlements which saw demographic growth during the Iron Age, the site was moved to a lowland position below the hilltop settlement in the Hellenistic era.