摘要

<正>Ⅰ.Introduction Tibetan Studies,or Tibetology,has long established itself as a scholarly discipline;moreover,it is now widely acknowledged as a significant area of investigation,similarly to Dunhuang Studies,Mongolian Studies,and Tangutology that emerged around the same time.Archaeology was first introduced into Tibetan Studies by western scholars.1More recently,modern scientific archaeology based on field excavation began to be