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Photographs

Members of the survey team at funerary structure FS3 measuring the ancillary east enclosure. Note the double-course perimeter walls in the foreground. Funerary structure FS1. Note the dispersion of stones in the center of the enclosure. The north tunnel façade. The revetment fragment at the south end of the ledge. The site, suspended on a shelf above the Chakgo Draklung (<i>lcags sgo brag lung</i>) Gorge. The north portion of the site. A masonry wall fragment with an ochre-tinted veneer surmounted by a tiered structure. The cave’s large entrance and skylight.
An elevated masonry cell in the cave’s façade. The elaborate and well-built cave façade. Wall footings lining each side of the forward portion of the cave. A sequestered room in the central chamber. The ledge and entrances to the central chamber (foreground) and west chamber (just visible near the most distant man in the image). Revetment fragments lining the ledge in front of the east chamber. The façade around the mouth of the central chamber. The Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences researcher Döndrup Lhagyel (<i>don grub lha rgyal</i>) with local nomads (<i>’brog pa</i>) at the mouth of the central chamber. Note the small window opening in the façade.
The pillar and north wall of the enclosure. The single pillar. The site, located in close proximity to a stream. The site’s single pillar and enclosure. Note the traces of the well-delineated walls of the rectangular enclosure. The north tumulus. The south tumulus. The central tumulus. Note the cairn on the boulder in the background. The site’s upright stones. The salt lake on the right side of the image is Gomang Tso (<i>sgo mang mtsho</i>).
The tallest standing stone at the site. Note the slab wall in the foreground. The tallest standing stone and some of its companions. Funerary structure FS1. Note the large stone in the enclosing wall, which rises 40 cm above ground level. The portion of the two rows of upright stones with the tallest specimen among them. The road at the top of the image was the recipient of stones recently pilfered from the archaeological site. Funerary structure FS3. A wall of the enclosure, suggesting a double-course composition. Funerary structure FS6. Note the way in which this large structure is set at three distinctive elevations. Funerary structure FS7 with members of the survey team.

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