Jan Albert Bakker

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Jan Albert Bakker (born November 4, 1935 in Breda ) is a Dutch prehistorian .

Life

Bakker began studying Prehistory and Protohistory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 1957 . Between 1968 and 1970 he led the excavation of the large stone grave Drouwenerveld (D26) near Drouwen . In 1972 he received his doctorate on The TRB Westgroup, Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery. Until his retirement in 2000 he taught and worked at the Institute for Prehistory of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, most recently as universitair hoofddocent (corresponds to the German Academic Council or university lecturer ) for Prehistory of Northwest Europe.

Bakker has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1990 . His main research interests include the funnel beaker culture with its megalithic tombs, the early Neolithic Vlaardingen culture , the middle and late Bronze Age in West Friesland and the archeology of Gooiland .

Fonts

author

  • The TRB West Group. Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery. (1979)
  • The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture. (1992)
  • Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. (2010)

editor

  • With Simone Bloo and M. Dütting: From Funeral Monuments to Household Pottery - Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB / TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands. (2013).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Filip : Encyclopedic Handbook on Prehistory and Early History in Europe. Volume 1. A-K. Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1966, p. 80.
  2. ↑ hunebedden.nl: Hunebed D26
  3. ^ DJ van de Kaa, Y. de Roo: De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen. A demographic perspective low. 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 9789069845524 , p. 251 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Bakker, Jan Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Breda