# Farmer 2022: The Lack of “Creativity” in Pre-Columbian Art: The Impact of Terence Grieder’s Early Scholarship on Recent Rock Art Studies

> James Farmer, 2022. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. A sympathetic critic's limits on the Mesoamerican analogy.

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# The Lack of “Creativity” in Pre-Columbian Art: The Impact of Terence Grieder’s Early Scholarship on Recent Rock Art Studies

James Farmer, 2022. _Making “Meaning”: Precolumbian Archaeology, Art History, and the Legacy of Terence Grieder_.

An art historian's review of how Grieder's method shaped rock art studies, with Boyd's White Shaman reading as a case. Farmer finds it compelling and generally persuasive, but notes that iconography points to Mesoamerica while style does not, that virtually no hard archaeological evidence of Mesoamerican presence in the Pecos area has surfaced, and that Boyd sets aside northern Uto-Aztecan sources such as Hopi ethnography.

**White Shaman MuralSecondary source** Chapterdoi: **[10.52713/YVEZ2354](https://doi.org/10.52713/YVEZ2354)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

A sympathetic critic's limits on the Mesoamerican analogy.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[No archaeological trace of Mesoamerica in the Pecos area, and a stylistic gap](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS2CZCXX1/no-archaeological-trace-of-mesoamerica-in-the-pecos-area-and)

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[Specialists call the links provocative but not conclusive](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS2VYCS4F/specialists-call-the-links-provocative-but-not-conclusive)

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[The analogy spans thousands of years and draws on selected sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRH59XYX4/the-analogy-spans-thousands-of-years-and-draws-on-selected)

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[The White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural)

The mystery article

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[Does the mural express beliefs that later Mesoamerican peoples inherited from the Archaic Lower Pecos?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPM8HGXYZ/does-the-mural-express-beliefs-that-later-mesoamerican)

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Farmer, J. (2022). The Lack of “Creativity” in Pre-Columbian Art: The Impact of Terence Grieder’s Early Scholarship on Recent Rock Art Studies. Making “Meaning”: Precolumbian Archaeology, Art History, and the Legacy of Terence Grieder. https://doi.org/10.52713/YVEZ2354
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