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

References

  1. Bakker, J.A. in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 251.
  2. 1 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.
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