Discussion
"Bertillonage", one of the earliest techniques of personal identification that was developed in the later part of 19th century was mainly based on :
Answer: C
Bertillonage was mainly based on anthropometry.
Alphonse Bertillon of the Paris police introduced his system in 1882. It recorded a set of body measurements that were thought not to change in adult life, such as height, the length and breadth of the head, the length of the middle finger and of the foot, and the span of the arms. Prisoners were filed by these measurements, supplemented by a description and a standard photograph (the mug shot).
Photographs and descriptions were secondary parts of the system. Handwriting played no part, and fingerprints replaced Bertillonage in the early twentieth century, notably after the Will West case of 1903.
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