Jan Peder Lamm

Who is Jan Peder Lamm?

Jan Peder Lamm, born 27 October 1935, is a Swedish archaeologist. He received his PhD in 1973 from the University of Stockholm for a dissertation about a Migration Period elite cemetery near Drottningholm.

Lamm taught archaeology at the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and then worked until retirement as Head Curator for the Swedish Iron Age at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. He is a member of the editorial board behind the journal Fornvännen and has taken active part in the Helgö project since the 1960s. 1975-2007 he was member of the editorial staff for Reallexikon der Germaischen Altertumskunde. He has engaged himself in furthering the cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and those from the Baltic countries.After his retirement in 2000 he has continued research on the Swedish gold collars from the migration period and conducted excavations of a medieval brick-kiln at Värmdö in the Stocholm archipelago.

Lamm is married to archaeologist Kristina Lamm and father of antiques specialist and television personality Peder Lamm.