Jennifer Lewis-Botica

Archaeologist, Principal, Kleanza Consulting Ltd.

Pacific northwest archaeologist specializing in cultural resource management. Passionate about community engagement and Indigenous heritage.

Media

CBC Radio North, January 21, 2013Radio/Podcast

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/daybreaknorth/interviews/2013/01/21/unearthed-northern-bc-artifacts-thousands-of-years-old/#igImgId_60781

There's an amazing discovery at an ancient village site along the Skeena River. Daybreak's Betsy Trumpener speaks with archaeologist Jenny Lewis.

Biography

Jennifer Lewisbotica is an anthropological archaeologist, co-owner of Kleanza Consulting Ltd. Lewisbotica's specializations lie in community engagement, public education, and capacity-building within First Nations' heritage programs. Specifically, she is a heritage management educator at the private, industrial, government, and community levels. Lewisbotica also aid First Nations' develop permitting and policy surrounding heritage and archaeology. She has been practicing archaeology in Canada, the United States, the Middle East, and Central America for more than fifteen years. Lewisbotica is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and a Professional Member of the BC Association of Professional Archaeologists. As a Heritage Conservation Act permit holder, I have diverse experience completing archaeological assessments for transportation and resource industries, small housing projects, large project management, forestry impact assessments, archaeological overviews, inventories, evaluation and management of heritage resources, mitigation of archaeological deposits, archaeological mapping, and report preparation.

Additional Titles and Affiliations

Society for American Archaeology

Register of Professional Archaeologists

Canadian Archaeological Association

British Columbia Association of Professional Archaeologists

Past Talks

Introduction to Resource and Environmental Management.

Guest lecturer in the School of Resource and Environmental Management

Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, January 7, 2014

CRM in BC and Beyond: Current Dynamics and Future Directions

Panel Discussion, Graduate Student Seminar

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, November 10, 2011

Archaeological Overview Assessment in Area H, Regional District of Nanaimo

Community meeting

Bowser, BC, May 2, 2017

Archaeological Shore Survey of Stephens Passage, BC: Within the Stephens Island Conservancy Management Plan.

Metlakatla First Nation Community Meeting

Prince Rupert, BC, March 7, 2012

Archaeology at Cedarvale

Gitxsan Community Meeting

Kitwanga, BC, January 9, 2013

Best Management Practices for Initiating a Lease Under FNLM: Archaeological Assessments and Heritage Management Studies.

First Nations Land Management Conference

Seabird Island, BC, June 13, 2014

Expertise

  • residential schools
  • Public Education
  • public archaeology
  • permitting
  • Looting
  • Looters
  • Indigenous heritage
  • Indigenous archaeology
  • heritage policy
  • heritage politics
  • heritage legislation
  • heritage ethics
  • Heritage
  • commercial archaeology
  • Colonialism
  • Collaboration
  • Archaeological Survey
  • Archaeological Research
  • archaeological ethics
  • Access to heritage

Education/Éducation

  • Simon Fraser University
    Archaeology
    PhD, 2017
  • University of British Columbia
    Classical Archaeology and Ancient History / Near Eastern Studies
    Bachelor of Arts, 2001
  • Universiteit Leiden
    Archaeology
    Master of Arts, 2005