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Archaeologist found many fingerprints pressed into clay showing remains of ancient people
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he wrote a paper explaining the different patterns of human hands that he studied under a microscope. and presenting ridges
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He was the first person to understand that the ridges on a fingerprint cannot be the same as another individual. He evaluated that every fingerprint is unique.
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He observed different fingerprint patterns like loops, circles, whorls and spirals
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he collected many fingerprint and concluded that with unique fingerprint patterns they do not change with age.
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He found a way to identify criminals and used his methods to identify constant criminals. The process is called Bertillon age.
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He improved the collection of fingerprints he also found new fingerprinting impressions and measured fingerprints of arrested people
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he organized a system where recorded fingerprints were placed in groups based on the their patterns. With the help of his colleagues he marked a ten card with all the fingers of the person that had the individual characteristics included.
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Bertillon used his strategies to figure out a murder investigation through fingerprints this was the first time this method was used.
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The Japanese were one of the first countries to create a Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to cross check over a million fingerprints. They used patterns and codes in the software to figure out the best match.
