It is hoped that this short paper will prompt someone to contact the author and assist in the artifact’s identification and functional use. The artifact has been shown to a number of colleagues both from Texas and Louisiana without any success in identification. In these boxes was a small, cone-shaped ceramic artifact which could not be readily identified. Alana Inman, Director of the Sam Houston Regional Library. Recently, several previously unknown boxes of material from the Savoy site were located by Ms.
2017).Ī number of exotic items are present in the site collections including two broken bannerstones made from lithic material not native to Texas, a broken boatstone, and a large partial bowl of the rare Lower Mississippian ceramic type Mabin Stamped, var. Artifacts from the Savoy site range from Middle Archaic to Late Prehistoric, with an extensive collection from the Woodland period (Crook et al. One of the more prolific sites represented in the collection is the Savoy site (41LB27) located in northeastern Liberty County. Andy Kyle and consists of well over 30,000 artifacts collected from 95 sites in 9 Southeast Texas counties. The collection was donated to the Center by the late Mr. Over the past two years, the Houston Archeological Society (HAS) has been working with the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Liberty, Texas to assess the contents of the extensive Andy Kyle Archeological Collection currently curated at the Center.
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