In the early 1980s, a small but vocal segment of anthropologists and archaeologists attempted to demonstrate that contemporary groups usually identified as hunter-gatherers do not, in most cases, have a continuous history of hunting and gathering, and that in many cases their ancestors were agriculturalists and/or pastoralists[citation needed] who were pushed into marginal areas as a result of migrations, economic exploitation, and/or violent conflict (see, for example, the Kalahari Debate). The result of their effort has been the general acknowledgement that there has been complex interaction between hunter-gatherers and non-hunter-gatherers for millennia.[citation needed]
In the early 1980s , a small but vocal segment of anthropologists and archaeologists attempted to demonstrate that contemporary groups usually identified as hunter - gatherers do not , in most cases , have a continuous history of hunting and gathering , and that in many cases their ancestors were agriculturalists and/or pastoralists[citation needed ] who were pushed into marginal areas as a result of migrations , economic exploitation , and/or violent conflict ( see , for example , the Kalahari Debate ) . The result of their effort has been the general acknowledgement that there has been complex interaction between hunter - gatherers and non - hunter - gatherers for millennia.[citation needed ]
If they're not purely hunter-gatherers, then what do they have a history of being?
If they 're not purely hunter - gatherers , then what do they have a history of being ?
agriculturalists
agriculturalists