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Jan Albert Bakker
Dutch archeologist (born 1935)
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]