Document Dating

Abstract

Documentoscopy is the area of criminalistics that aims to identify the authenticity or falsity of documents. One of the biggest challenges in this field is establishing the age of a document, as a result of which several techniques have been developed in recent decades in an attempt to find a dating examination methodology, however, accurately attesting when a record was made remains a very difficult task. difficult. In this sense, the objective of this work was to demonstrate the different methods of document dating. The work methodology was qualitative research as it was a literature review. Based on the survey carried out, the set of analytical techniques, such as chromatography, spectroscopy, among others, has shown good results in dating tests, combined with the discovery of anachronisms in the documents questioned. Unifying the application of knowledge from different branches of science together with Documentoscopy is one of the solutions to face the challenges. Finally, to establish the age of a document, it is necessary to analyze all the characteristics and data of the document, from its support to the information displayed in it, checking the existence of anachronisms, physical and chemical changes, in short, anything that deviates from the normality or that attracts the specialist's attention must be carefully examined.