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Comments on a paper by Ron Pinhasi and Mark Pluciennik which examines the potential contribution of archaeological human skeletal material, in particular craniometric data, to interpretations of the nature of the transition to farming in Europe. Presentation of multivariate data in the relatively direct format of principal-component plots; Separation between Mesolithic and Neolithic groups; Founder effects expected from separate maritime colonization events to Cyprus and the northern Mediterranean.