From Fish Weir to Waterfall

Tollefson, Kenneth D.; Abbott, Martin

doi:10.2307/1185528

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“…A cascade is a stair-stepped series of short falls and brief pools where water alternates between high and low energy states (Ford, 1968). Each feature has associated beings or stories that reinforce the connection of persons to places (Tollefson and Abbott, 1993). Waterfalls are also natural barriers that restrict the upstream movement of fish and aquatic organisms, a characteristic significant for people whose livelihoods rely on these resources.…”

Section: Waterfalls As Sensate Landscape Featuresmentioning

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“…Waterfalls are also natural barriers that restrict the upstream movement of fish and aquatic organisms, a characteristic significant for people whose livelihoods rely on these resources. Water confluences and waterfalls mark boundaries that coordinate land and water forms, and they are additionally important for demarcating fishing areas, especially for migratory species (Tollefson and Abbott, 1993). Waterfalls can also mark cultural boundaries: Katz (2016) identifies Great Falls on the Potomac River as a liminal space-a permeable, uninhabited boundary between the homelands of different cultural groups where small sites described as short-term camps have been recorded.…”

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The Visibility of Sound: Acoustic Archaeology in the Blue Ridge Mountains

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2021

North American Archaeologist

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Waterfalls are documented among Indigenous peoples as settings for the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and locations sacred to life transitions. Eastern Woodlands ethnographic literature identifies waterfalls as places where life emerges in the presence of danger, requiring the acknowledgement of those who travel near them. In the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, ceramic-bearing Middle and Late Woodland sites near named waterfalls are associated with small sites located outside the topographic parameters of modeled site locations and containing non-local or unique objects. Sound mapping with calibrated decibel meters, survey-grade GPS, and inverse distance weighted interpolation demonstrate a correspondence between the location of the small sites and natural sound magnification. The small sites and the deposited objects may represent the offerings of travelers made aware of the sacred/dangerous place by the sound of the waterfall. Acoustic archaeology is introduced as a practice that takes into consideration sensory experience as central to place identity.

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Section: Waterfalls As Sensate Landscape Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Waterfalls As Sensate Landscape Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%