Winterhalder & Goland Proto-Domestication Scenario 

 PD Density

PD Rank

Resource Utilization

Human Population Response

High

Low

PD dominates diet

Large population increase

   

Hi-rank prey depletion

High risk

   

Broad diet breadth

 
 

High

High

PD dominates diet

Large population increase

   

No resource depletion

Intermediate risk

   

Narrow diet breadth

 
 

Low

Low

PD minor part of diet

Little population increase

   

Little resource depletion

Low risk

   

Broad diet breadth

 
 

Low

High

PD minor part of diet

Little population increase

   

Little resource depletion

Low risk

   

Broad diet breadth

 

Sources:

Winterhalder, Bruce and Carol Goland (1993) On population, foraging efficiency, and plant domestication. Current Anthropology 34:710-715.

Winterhalder, Bruce and Carol Goland. (1997) An evolutionary ecology perspective on diet choice, risk, and plant domestication. In Kristen J. Gremillian, ed. Peoples, plants, and landscapes: studies in paleoethnobotany. Tuscaloosa, AL: U. of Alabama Press.