Context: Some of the theorists who advocate this "revisionist" critique imply that, because the "pure hunter-gatherer" disappeared not long after colonial (or even agricultural) contact began, nothing meaningful can be learned about prehistoric hunter-gatherers from studies of modern ones (Kelly, 24-29; see Wilmsen)

Question: What can be learned from the study of modern hunter-gatherers?
Answer: nothing meaningful

Question: Who thinks that it is useless to study modern foragers since the real ones are gone?
Answer: theorists

Question: What type of hunter-gatherer has disappeared ?
Answer: pure hunter-gatherer

Question: The "pure hunter-gatherer" appeared not long after what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Many meaningful things can be learned about prehistoric hunter-gatherers from what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Nothing meaningful can be learned about modern hunter gatherers from the studies of what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who advocates this "reviled" critique?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do some theorists imply about modern hunter-gatherers?
Answer: Unanswerable