Two Enigmatic ʺMegalithicʺ Sites in Tibet

For a long time after publication, Giuseppe Tucciʹs book on the archaeology of Tibet stood out as a solitary landmark in an almost flat landscape. Notwithstanding the limited data then available, its being addressed to a popular readership and undeniable flaws, the book was praised for summarising and organising a coherent picture of the first-hand results obtained by the author in the course of several expeditions through Tibet and the Himalayas from 1928 to 1954.¹ The space dedicated to prehistory is intriguing. This chapter takes up one fifth of the book: astonishingly generous, given the state of knowledge and the