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".
[5] Bakker became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.