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 theUniversity of Amsterdam, where he worked at the Institute for Prae- and Protohistory. His field of expertise is theFunnelbeaker culture and the Dutchdolmen called hunebeds.[2][3]
Bakker obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1973 underWillem 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 ofDrouwen between 1968 and 1970, this was the last hunebed to be excavated in the Netherlands.[5]
Bakker became a member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[6]
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