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

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

2022

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

2019

• Elizabeth Velliky; Alvise Barbieri; Martin Porr et al. (2019). A preliminary study on ochre sources in Southwestern Germany and its potential for ochre provenance during the Upper Paleolithic. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Velliky; Nicholas j. Conard (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)

2021

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

2025

• Elizabeth Catherine Velliky; Francesco d'Errico; Karen Loise van Niekerk et al. (2025). Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave. (ekstern lenke)

2018

• Elizabeth Velliky; Martin Porr; Nicholas j. Conard (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)
• Elizabeth Velliky; Nicholas j. Conard; Rimtautas Dapschauskas 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)
• Elizabeth Velliky (2018). Identifying diachronic changes in ochre behaviours throughout the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 40-12.5kya) of Southwestern Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Velliky (2018). The selection and exploitation of ancient pigments: Identifying diachronic trends in ochre use through NAA at Hohle Fels Cave, Germany. (ekstern lenke)

2023

• Sara Rhodes; Elizabeth Catherine Velliky; Gregor Bader (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)
• Geir Harald Samuelsen; Elizabeth Catherine Velliky; Marte Johnslien et al. (2023). Resisting Nature. (ekstern lenke)
• Jasmin Oliviah Culey; Elizabeth Catherine Velliky (2023). The Ochre Workshop: Exploring the origins of ochre surfaces at Blombos Cave. (ekstern lenke)
• Brandi lee Macdonald; Elizabeth Catherine Velliky; Jörg Lindstädter et al. (2023). Mineral pigment provisioning and rock art in Stone Age Eswatini. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Elizabeth Velliky (2020). The past wasn’t black & white: the role of colour in the story of humans. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Velliky; Brandi lee Macdonald; Martin Porr et al. (2020). First large-scale provenance study of pigments reveals new complex behavioural patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic of southwestern Germany. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Velliky (2020). When Homo sapiens became like us: The Origins of Symbolism and how we define Modern Human Behaviour. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Catherine Velliky; B.L. MacDonald; M. Porr 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)
• Magnus Mathisen Haaland; André M. Strauss; Elizabeth Velliky 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)

2017

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

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