[0243-2222] THE DROPA STONES – Companion Dossier (PDF)

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In July 1938, amid the chaos of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Peking University archaeologist Chi Pu Tei led an expedition into the limestone fault-caves of the Bayan Har Mountains. What his survey team uncovered on the high Tibetan frontier defied orthodox prehistory: forty-two organized burial depressions containing anomalous, diminutive skeletons and hundreds of uniform stone discs incised with microscopic spiral grooves. Labeled an anomaly by Nationalist authorities and evacuated down the Yangtze River, the discovery fragmented into a web of institutional secrecy, lost crates, and suppressed research. This Companion Dossier compiles every surviving scrap of documentary evidence, from initial Amdo survey transcripts to the controversial 1960s decipherment attempts by linguist Tsum Um Nui. Featuring reconstructed timelines, excavation diagrams, forensic skeletal indices, and declassified academic correspondence, this dossier separates legitimate field archaeology from cold war disinformation. Revisit the sealed caverns of Dzong-ri and examine the physical and archival paper trail behind Asia’s most fiercely debated prehistory enigma.