Tripartite building

The determination of function, therefore, is so closely allied with regional theoretical perspectives and developmental histories that we must be quite cautious in such attributions, looking closely at any detail that might be informative. It is further complicated by the fact that tripartite architecture became so widespread in the fifth millennium that it may now, in the Uruk period, be considered local to the north, and therefore, like any local adaptation, cannot be assumed to have maintained the function (whatever that was) of its original manifestation in the southern Ubaid culture. In fact there is only one proper tripartite building in Level 16, and if it is an ordinary domestic house then some unusual social practices would appear to be in evidence. This structure... 

These initiatives can be seen both as efforts to build commitment and as cooptation. This is particularly evident in the aims for the project Working Together for Safety where only two of the aims focus directly on safety issues, while the remaining focus on rebuilding trust and reputation of the industry. The inherent establishment of arenas for tripartite cooperation in these projects are other examples of the same. 

The Uruk section of Hassek Hoyiik (Fig. 17) consists of large single-celled spaces, a grill-based structure commonly called a granary, a middle-room house, and most likely a monumental building, also probably of tripartite... 

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