Beans font

The term bean script , which is controversial among experts, refers to a type of legume that is called “pallares” (scientific name: Phaseolus lunatus ) in Spanish . These beans , which can be found in many graves of the South American Mochica culture, are decorated with dots and lines that the Peruvian scientist Hoyle believed to be a type of writing . This assumption is supported by the fact that these beans are also painted on vases .

The author of this thesis is the Peruvian collector and researcher Rafael Larco Hoyle , who was of the opinion that it is impossible that a people as advanced as the Mochica should not have had a script. Hoyle was the owner of the largest private collection of Mochica pottery, on which he looked for traces of inscriptions.

literature

• Miloslav Stingl : On the trail of the oldest empires in Peru. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig et al. 1990, ISBN 3-332-00363-1 , pp. 161-168.