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 1973 under Willem Glasbergen with a thesis titled: "Westgroep van de trechterbekercultuur : studies over chronologie en geografie van de makers van hunebedden en diepsteekceramiek, ten westen van de Elbe".[4] He 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.[5]
Bakker became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[6]
Publications
edit- 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
edit- ^ Bakker, J.A. in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 251.
- ^ a b "Dr. Jan Albert Bakker" (in Dutch). Megalithic Routes. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ^ "Dr. Jan Albert Bakker". Sidestone Press. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ^ "J.A. Bakker". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Gouden kei voor hunebed-deskundige Jan Albert Bakker" (in Dutch). RTV Drenthe. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ^ "Jan Albert Bakker". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020.
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