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Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI)

The smallest number of distinct individuals required to account for all skeletal elements present in an assemblage. Determined by identifying the element and side that appears most frequently, accounting for age-class and size differences. Used in the Buikstra-Ubelaker Walker 2008 revision for commingled and mass-grave assemblages.

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