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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. The site’s pillars and enclosure. The central pillar.
A close-up of the central pillar with the north pillar in the background. The site’s pillars. Note the traces of the walls that once enclosed the pillars, as well as the collapsed pillar. Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS1. Funerary structure FS3. The vestiges of funerary structure FS6. The scant remains of funerary structure FS7.
A close-up of the slab walls of funerary structure FS3. The large double-course slab-wall funerary structure FS3. Residential structure RS2. The basement of residential structure RS1. The stone and rammed-earth walls of residential structure RS1. Residential structure RS3. Residential structures RS1 and RS3. Funerary structure FS9, the site’s largest terraced funerary structure.
Two of the smaller terraced funerary structures. The prominently elevated forward flank of a large terraced funerary structure. One of the larger terraced funerary structures. Note the depression in the middle of the structure. One of the larger terraced funerary structures. A poorly preserved terraced funerary structure. One of the site’s largest terraced funerary structures. Note the clearly delineated rear wall (foreground). One of the larger terraced funerary structures. Some of the site’s terraced funerary structures.

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