Wildlife was abundant in this area. The buffalo were still plentiful in the Virginia Piedmont up until the 1700s. The Upper Potomac watershed (above Great Falls, Virginia) was once renowned for its unsurpassed abundance of wild geese, earning the Upper Potomac its former Algonquian name, "Cohongoruton" (Goose River). Men and boys bring in animal carcasses, fish, shellfish and women bring in greens. Although either sex gathers food, women butcher the meats, gut the fish, and cook shellfish and vegetables for stew. In addition, women's work consists of building houses when it was time to relocate after field and resources become exhausted. Experienced women and older girls worked together to build the houses while younger children would hand materials over as needed.