The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods

The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some extent in MacGillivray’s book Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (1998). The three West Court Kouloures were constructed at the beginning of the First Palace period and went out of use at its end, according to the date of their fills, large dumps of MM IIB and MM IIIA pottery. These appear ....