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Photographs in Gar

A portion of cluster 2 (?). A coherent wall fragment of the enclosure. The site. Note the road running past the site in the foreground and the Senggé Tsangpo (<i>seng ge gtsang po</i>) in the background. The site’s fragmentary enclosure. Cluster 2 (foreground), cluster 3 (background). Cluster 3. In the background are outliers of the Ayila (<i>a yi la</i>) range. Seated inside the structure are two members of the survey team. One of the ramparts of the lower summit. The staggered defensive wall fragments of the lower summit.
The large amounts of rubble in front of the cave. Fragment of a curtain-wall at the low end of the site. Local guides at the disintegrated front of the cave. A close-up of a curtain-wall fragment at the low end of the site. The formation supporting the remains. A defensive wall rising above the summit of the formation. One of the two wall sections on the more westerly ledge in the rear of the cave. Funerary structure FS7.
Masonry structure in the middle of the rear wall of the cave. The rear of the cave, looking towards the entrance. The wall on the east ledge in the rear of the cave. Funerary structure FS5. Funerary structure FS7. Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS2 with the backdrop ridge to the west. A portion of funerary structure FS4.
Funerary structure FS3. A close-up of a wall fragment. A close-up of a wall fragment. The central wall. Traces of defensive walls. A cubic tomb on the southwest shelf. The base of the central depository in one of the cubic tombs. The snow-filled central depository of funerary structure FS3.

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