Minimum Number of Individuals

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In osteoarchaeology and zooarchaeology the principle of the minimum number of individuals was defined by the ethnologist of North America T.E. White in 1953 ^{[citation needed]}. The principle of MNI accounts for each possible individual human or animal as an individual unit in the most parsimonious way, meaning to count the least number of individuals in an archaeological site. An example of this is if there were two femurs, a left and a right, then the MNI=1. If there were two left femurs the MNI=2.

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