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Photographs in 2002 High Tibet Circle Expedition (HTCE)

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. 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.

2002 High Tibet Circle Expedition (HTCE) in Topic


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