Jan Albert Bakker

{{Short description|Dutch archeologist (born 1935)}}

Jan Albert Bakker (born 4 June 1935, Breda)[https://books.google.com/books?id=gzNvCGJEGCYC&pg=PA251 Bakker, J.A.] in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 251. 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.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.megalithicroutes.eu/nl/individual/dr-jan-albert-bakker |title=Dr. Jan Albert Bakker |language=Dutch |publisher=Megalithic Routes |date= |accessdate=12 January 2016}}{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.sidestone.com/authors/jan-albert-bakker |title=Dr. Jan Albert Bakker |publisher=Sidestone Press |date= |accessdate=12 January 2016}}

Bakker obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1973 under {{ill|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".{{cite web|url=http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Bakker;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;size=1;start=59 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205134747/http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple&lang=nl&c=ap&rgn1=entirerecord&q1=Bakker&x=0&y=0&cc=ap&view=reslist&sort=achternaam&fmt=long&page=reslist&size=1&start=59 |title=J.A. Bakker |publisher=University of Amsterdam |date= |archive-date=5 February 2021}} He later started working as lecturer at the same university. He retired in 2000. 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.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/41544/Gouden-kei-voor-hunebed-deskundige-Jan-Albert-Bakker |title=Gouden kei voor hunebed-deskundige Jan Albert Bakker |language=Dutch |publisher=RTV Drenthe |date=26 November 2009 |accessdate=12 January 2016}}

Bakker became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3828 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925110823/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3828 |title=Jan Albert Bakker |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=25 September 2020}}