Astronomy as a Cultural System

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Editorial Note. This paper was first published as Iwaniszewski, Stanislaw, ‘Astronomy as a Cultural System’, Interdisciplinary Research, Archaeological Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1991, Vol. XVIII, pp. 282-289. The paper was read at the First National Symposium on Archaeoastronomy held in November, 22-24, 1988 in Tolbukhin (present day name is Dobrich). This paper was translated into Russian by M.M. Kalishenko and published as “Astronomiya kak kul'turnaya Sistema”. Na rubezhakh poznaniya vselennoy. Istoriko-astronomicheskiye issledovaniya, 22: pp.67–73 (1990). [Russkaya Akademia Nauk, Moskva], edited by Alexander Gurshtein.