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Early Writings

• Cuneiform- impression left by the stylus

were wedged shaped D, thus giving rise
to the Cuneiform ( Latin cuneus means
wedge)
• Paleography - (from greek palaios "old"
and graphein "to write") is the study of
ancient writing
- Bernard de Montfaucon used
the term paleography
• Calligraphy- (from Greek Karlos "beauty"
and graphè "writting") often called the art
of fancy lettering (mediavilla 1996)
• Petroglyphs- comes from Greek word
Petros means stone and glyphein means
to carve ( originally coined in French as
pètroglyphe)
- also called rock engravings
are images created by removing part of a
rock surface by incising, pecking, carving
and abrading.
• Iconography- neolithic man began written
communication as long as 20,000 years
ago when he graphically represented
objects and ideas in drawings on cave
walls known as iconography
• Egyptian Hieroglyphics- from Greek
hierós " sacred craving"
- a formal writing system used
by ancient Egyptians that contained a
combination of logo graphic and alphabetic
elements
• Ideograph- an ideogram or ideograph
( idea"idea" and grafo "to write) a graphic
symbol that represents an idea or
concept
• Graffiti- from Italian graffito means a
scratch refers to handwriting or images
on the walls or surfaces of a public area,
such as building, parks, toilets and trains
- Jean-Michael Basquiat(1960-1988)
American painter, whose work first
appeared as graffiti on the streets and
subways of New York city. He was the most
successful so-called street artists.
• Scribes- a person who writes books or
documents by hands as a profession and
helps the city keep track of its record
- ancient Egyptian scribe was an
extremely good career or job. Ancient scribe
has the opportunity rise to rank to high
ranks and even become a royal scribe
bringing him wealth, land, ang power.
- scribe could be described as civil
servants of Egypt. They worked in the
following roles : Tax collector, law
administrators, writing letters and
documents (marriage contract), recording
Criminalistics Milestone

• Mathieu Orfila (1987-1853)

• Sir Arthur Conan • Francis Galton
Doyle (1822- 1911)
• Hans Gross- • Alphonse
(1847-1915) Bertillon (1853-1914)
• Albert Osborn • Edmond Locard (
(1858-1946) 1877-1966)
• Leone Lattes • Walter McCrone
(1887-1954) ( 1915-1916)

Edgar Hoover