Peter Akkermans
Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Peter M.M.G. Akkermans (Hulsberg, The Netherlands, 1957) studied Prehistory and Archaeology of Western Asia at the University of Amsterdam, where he also completed (cum laude) his PhD on Neolithic settlement in Syria. From 1990 until 2009 he was Curator of the Dept. of the Ancient Near East in the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities, in combination with an Extraordinary Professorship of Near Eastern Prehistory at Leiden University. Since 2010 Akkermans is Full Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Leiden University. For several years he was Chair of both the Near Eastern and Classical-Mediterranean sections and he served as Vice-Dean and Chair of Education of the Faculty of Archaeology from August 2012 until January 2016.
Research Interest
Archaeology
Publications
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Akkermans P.M.M.G. (2016), Jabal Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project, American Journal of Archaeology 120: 633-634.
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Akkermans P.M.M.G. (2017), Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa). In: Kanjou Y., Tsuneki A. (Eds.) Syria in One Hundred Sites. Damascus: Assalihani. 73-76.
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Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2017), Nothing But Cold Ashes? The Burial Cairns of Jebel Qurma, North-Eastern Jordan, 80: 132-139.
