Jan Albert Bakker

Jan Albert Bakker (born 4 June 1935, Breda)^[1] is a Dutch archeologist. He is an emeritus lecturer of Prehistoric Archaeology of Northwestern Europe at the University of Amsterdam, where he worked at the Institute for Prae- and Protohistory. His field of expertise is the Funnelbeaker culture and the Dutch dolmen called hunebeds.^[2][3]

Bakker obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1972 and later started working as lecturer at the same university. He retired in 2000.^[2] He was one of the researchers who worked on a hunebed near the village of Drouwen between 1968 and 1970, this was the last hunebed to be excavated in the Netherlands.^[4]

Bakker became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.^[5]

Publications

• The TRB Westgroup, Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery, Amsterdam, 1979/2009.
• Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911: From ‘Giant’s Beds’ and ‘Pillars of Hercules’ to accurate investigations, 2010.

References

1. Bakker, J.A. in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 251.
2. "Dr. Jan Albert Bakker" (in Dutch). Megalithic Routes. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
3. "Dr. Jan Albert Bakker". Sidestone Press. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
4. "Gouden kei voor hunebed-deskundige Jan Albert Bakker" (in Dutch). RTV Drenthe. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
5. "Jan Albert Bakker". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 January 2016.