Abstract
Since centuries the external ear which is known as the pinna or the auricle has been used as a means of identification. It has been studied and described as a part of procedures to establish the identity of criminals and victims of crimes and accidents. Not only the auricle itself showed potential for establishing the identity of criminals, but also its prints. When perpetrators of crimes listen at, for instance, a door or window before breaking and entering, oils and waxes leave prints that can be made visible using techniques similar to those used when lifting fingerprints. These prints appear characteristic for the ears that made them.
Highlights
Try a simple experiment; try to visualize what your ears look like
Earprints are found at various crime scenes and the majority of the scenes of crime where earprints are discovered involve burglaries
In the contemporary forensic science more and more attention has been paid to those traces, which until recently were considered untypical, such as ear impressions [5]
Summary
Try a simple experiment; try to visualize what your ears look like. You were not able to? Well, try to describe the ears of someone you see every day. If we look further in the history of ears and ear prints we will find Darwin, who attracted the attention of the scientific world regarding the ear, during his research about the relation with primates, by saying that the ear is one of the elementary organs To prove for his position he pointed at the broadening of the middle of the helix (auricular tubercle), indicating that this is nothing else but a corner of the primitive ear which is reducing. The auricle belongs to the organs characterized by location, size and shape, which are individual features for each human being. An ear constitutes a valuable identification appearance feature used in creating a signalment portrait, various methods of appearance reconstruction, identification of persons based on photographs and identification of corpses. The ear lobe is a part of the disaster identification system [6]
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