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 1973 under Willem Glasbergen [nl] 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

• 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.