A discriminant analysis approach to morphological regionalization in the European Late Mesolithic.

The morphological regionalization of European Mesolithic populations was studied by discriminant analysis. Samples from four localities were compared employing craniometric variables. The general conclusion was that there is evidence for regionalization in the Late mesolithic in Europe, and a clinical pattern of variation was not detected. These results are in agreement with archaeological reconstructions of the population structure in the Late Mesolithic Europe.