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	ন্যূনতম সংখ্যক ব্যক্তি (Minimum Number of Individuals - MNI)	দাঁতের মাইক্রোওয়্যার টেক্সচার বিশ্লেষণ
ক্ষেত্র	প্রত্নতত্ত্ব	প্রত্নতত্ত্ব
পরিবার	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
উদ্ভবের বছর	1953	1988
প্রবর্তক	Theodore White	Peter Teaford
ধরন	Faunal quantification method	Dietary inference method
মৌলিক উৎস	White, T. E. (1953). A method of calculating the dietary percentages of various food animals utilized by aboriginal peoples. American Antiquity, 19(4), 396-398.	Ungar, P. S. (2007). Evolution of the human diet: The known, the unknown, and the unknowable. Oxford University Press.
অপর নাম	MNI method, minimum individual number	microwear analysis, dental wear analysis
সম্পর্কিত	4	4
সারসংক্ষেপ	Minimum number of individuals (MNI) is a quantitative zooarchaeological method that estimates the minimum number of animals represented in a faunal assemblage based on the frequency of unique skeletal elements. Developed by Theodore White in 1953, it is one of the most widely used techniques for analyzing animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites. The MNI method helps archaeologists understand hunting and butchering patterns, interpret subsistence practices, and assess the diversity of fauna exploited by past human populations.	Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a method that reconstructs diet and dietary behavior from microscopic wear patterns on the surfaces of teeth. Pioneered by Mark Teaford in the 1980s, DMTA analyzes the three-dimensional texture of wear patterns produced as food is chewed. The method reflects short-term (last few months) dietary composition, complementing longer-term dietary information obtained from stable isotope analysis. DMTA has proven powerful for distinguishing diets rich in tough/fibrous foods from those dominated by hard/brittle foods.