My current work focuses on the mineral pigment assemblages from Blombos and Klipdrift caves, located along the southern coast in South Africa. I use a combination of qualitative (general artefact overview) and quantitative (geochemical analyses) methods to understand the characteristics of the pigment assemblage from a physical and landscape perspective. These data can inform on the human behaviours associated with their aquisition and use, how these behaviours impacted and shaped the culture and society of the earliest humans in Africa, and how these evolved over time. Aside from mineral pigments, I also engage in rock art research, personal ornaments, raw material acquisition and transportation, and symbolic behaviours more generally. I have worked on sites in the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel, Oman, eSwatini, South Africa, and Norway.

I have taught courses on experimental archaeology, instructional overviews for archaeological applications of PXRF, North American archaeology, material culture analysis, and the prehistory of religion.

I have also supervised several MA projects and one PhD project on the ancient uses of ochre and rock art.

2024

• Culey, Jasmin; d'Errico, Francesco; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine et al. (2024). Shifting perspectives: theoretical and analytical trends in Middle Stone Age ochre studies. (ekstern lenke)
• Dutkiewicz, Ewa; Wolf, Sibylle; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine et al. (2024). Constructing Identity: Body Decoration and Modification in the Swabian Aurignacian. (ekstern lenke)
• MacDonald, Brandi Lee; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Forrester, Bob et al. (2024). Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Hodgskiss, Tammy; Straffon, Larissa et al. (2024). The Framework for Ochre Experiences (Foes) : Towards a Transdisciplinary Perspective on the Earth Material Heritage of Ochre. (ekstern lenke)

2023

• Macdonald, Brandi lee; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Lindstädter, Jörg et al. (2023). Mineral pigment provisioning and rock art in Stone Age Eswatini. (ekstern lenke)
• Culey, Jasmin Oliviah; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine (2023). The Ochre Workshop: Exploring the origins of ochre surfaces at Blombos Cave. (ekstern lenke)
• Rhodes, Sara; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Bader, Gregor (2023). Clearing the brush of time: a re-examination of the Dikbosch 1 rockshelter legacy material and the Later Stone Age of the interior of South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Samuelsen, Geir Harald; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Johnslien, Marte et al. (2023). Resisting Nature. (ekstern lenke)

2022

• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Conard, Nicholas j. (2022). Ochre and pigment behaivours throughout the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 43.5-12.5 kya) in the Swabian Jura of Southwestern Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Mentzer, Susan M. et al. (2022). New insights into ochre features and their associated behaviours from the Howieson’s Poort layers at Klipdrift Shelter. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine (2022). Current perspectives on ochre behaviors in the LSA of eSwatini. (ekstern lenke)
• Bentsen, Silje Evjenth; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Milic, Jovana et al. (2022). Pilot fires: Preliminary Report from Interdisciplinary Actualistic Fire Experiments. (ekstern lenke)

2021

• Bader, Gregor; Forrester, Bob; Ehlers, Lisa et al. (2021). The Forgotten Kingdom: New investigations in the prehistory of Eswatini. (ekstern lenke)
• Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Mentzer, Susan M; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine et al. (2021). Characterizing microscopic ochre fragments at Middle Stone Age sites: implications for evaluating prehistoric ochre use and deposition. (ekstern lenke)
• Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Mentzer, Susan M; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine et al. (2021). Characterizing microscopic ochre fragments at Middle Stone Age sites: Implications for evaluating in-situ ochre processing and use. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; d'Errico, Francesco (2021). The ochre workshop: past and present-day perspectives on colour and human behaviour. (ekstern lenke)
• Samuelsen, Geir Harald; Sørensen, Elin T.; O'Kane, Eamon et al. (2021). The Palimpsest. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Macdonald, Brandi lee; Linstädter, Jörg et al. (2021). Archaeological, archaeometric and ethnographic perspectives on ochre behaviours in Eswatini. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Hodgskiss, Tammy; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen (2021). The MAMOR Database: Measuring Anthropogenic Markings on 3D Ochre Surface Renderings. (ekstern lenke)
• Macdonald, Brandi lee; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Linstädter, Jörg et al. (2021). Ochre Provenance in Eswatini: Geochemical Insights on MSA/LSA Ochre Procurement. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Hodgskiss, Tammy; Straffon, Larissa Mendoza et al. (2021). Ochre Across Deep Time: A conversation exploring ochre's enduring role in human behavior and evolution, and in protecting Earth-systems knowledge. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Patrick; Ludovic, Bellot-Gurlet et al. (2021). Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Velliky, Elizabeth (2020). The past wasn’t black & white: the role of colour in the story of humans. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; MacDonald, B.L.; Porr, M. et al. (2020). First large-scale provenance study of pigments reveals new complex behavioural patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic of south-western Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth (2020). When Homo sapiens became like us: The Origins of Symbolism and how we define Modern Human Behaviour. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth; Macdonald, Brandi lee; Porr, Martin et al. (2020). First large-scale provenance study of pigments reveals new complex behavioural patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic of southwestern Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Strauss, André M.; Velliky, Elizabeth et al. (2020). Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample. (ekstern lenke)

2019

• Velliky, Elizabeth; Conard, Nicholas j. (2019). Pigments and people in a changing landscape: Investigating ochre behaviors in Southwestern Germany during the Upper Paleolithic (ca. 44-12.5 kcal BP). (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth; Barbieri, Alvise; Porr, Martin et al. (2019). A preliminary study on ochre sources in Southwestern Germany and its potential for ochre provenance during the Upper Paleolithic. (ekstern lenke)

2018

• Velliky, Elizabeth; Porr, Martin; Conard, Nicholas j. (2018). Ochre and pigment use at Hohle Fels cave: Results of the first systematic review of ochre and ochre-related artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic in Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth (2018). The selection and exploitation of ancient pigments: Identifying diachronic trends in ochre use through NAA at Hohle Fels Cave, Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth (2018). Identifying diachronic changes in ochre behaviours throughout the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 40-12.5kya) of Southwestern Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth; Conard, Nicholas j.; Dapschauskas, Rimtautas et al. (2018). The use of ochre and painting during the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura in the context of the development of ochre use in Africa and Europe. (ekstern lenke)

2017

• Velliky, Elizabeth (2017). Rötel- und Ockerartefakte aus dem Hohle Fels: Farbpigmente und Kunst von der Schwäbischen Alb. (ekstern lenke)
• Velliky, Elizabeth; Kandel, Andrew; Karakostis, Fotios Alexandros (2017). Sixth annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. (ekstern lenke)

2016

• Velliky, Elizabeth (2016). Identifying anthropogenic modification on archaeology ochre materials by early hominin populations. (ekstern lenke)

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