Minimum number of individuals
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Minimum number of individuals
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In disciplines including forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteoarchaeology, Paleontology and zooarchaeology Minimum number of individuals, or MNI, refers to the fewest possible number of people or animals in a skeletal assemblage. It is used to determine an estimate of how many people or animals are present in a cluster of bones. The principle of the minimum number of individuals was defined by the North American ethnologist T. E. White in 1953. The principle of MNI accounts for each possi
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