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Photographs in China

The site’s outlying funerary structure. The site’s pillars. C. Ashley McAllen, the HTWE’s physician, stands near the enclosure. The site, seen from the northwest. Note the clearly delineated perimeter walls. Funerary structure FS1 (center) and funerary structure FS2 (right). Funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS5. The prostrate pillar of Mönpé Doring (<i>mon pa’i rdo ring</i>). Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. Note how the stones fixed in the ground form a platform-like structure.
The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. Funerary structure FS2. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. The two pillars of Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) East. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) East. A more coherent wall segment in funerary structure FS3. The uphill portion of funerary structure FS1, Shong Dora (<i>shong rdo ra</i>).
Funerary structure FS3. Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS1. Funerary structure FS3. The nearly leveled funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS5. The bulk of the mound used to occupy the foreground. In the background is the remaining rear portion of the mound. Funerary structure FS3.
The ruins dispersed around the site. The undulating surface of the site. The site, with arable fields and the survey team base camp in the background. Note the recent excavation in the foreground. Measuring funerary structure FS1. Members of the survey team at funerary structure FS2. In the background is the large Dam (<i>’dam</i>) Basin. Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS1. Funerary structure FS3.

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