The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is not necessarily a one way process. It has been argued that hunting and gathering represents an <answer>adaptive strategy</answer>, which may still be exploited, if necessary, when environmental change causes extreme food stress for agriculturalists. In fact, it is sometimes difficult to draw a clear line between agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies, especially since the widespread adoption of agriculture and resulting cultural diffusion that has occurred in the last 10,000 years.[citation needed] This anthropological view has remained unchanged since the 1960s.[clarification needed][citation needed]
What is hunting and gathering argued to be?
adaptive strategy