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In 700 B.C. the Chinese began to record thumbprints on clay sculpture. In 250 B.C. a Greek physician created the first lie detector test. He started noting his patients pulse rate and made the connection of the pulse beating faster when they were lying, thus began the lie detector test.
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In Nova Scotia, archaeologists found very detailed ancient drawings of what looked like ridges or the prints on hands. This evidence leads to the investigation of crime scene starting when a man took his fingerprints by pressing hands or fingers into clay and rocks.
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In 1100 A.D. Quintilian proved that palm prints that were covered in blood were left at a crime scene to frame a blind man for the murder of his mother.
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Overtime advancements in crime scene investigation focused on the aspects of fingerprint detail and chemical elements like poisons. In the mid-1800s, investigators at Scotland Yard began to compare bullets.
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During the late 1800s and early 1900s, forensic science started to include technologies like body temperature to determine the time of death and the use of fingerprinting for identification. In 1921 the portable polygraph machine was made. Then in 1933 the gunshot residue tests began to form.
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With using the information and other technology that was created in prehistoric times, it led to allowing a lot more technology to advance which is why Crime Scene Investigation is the way it is today.