Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

Talking about postal sytems, postal stations are specialized buildings exclusively devoted to the postal service. if there is a special building that has other functions than a postal station, we still code postal station as present. the intent is to capture additional infrastructure beyond having a corps of messengers. (See here)

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Variable	Definition
Polity	The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s)	The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag	[Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
postal_station	The absence or presence of postal station for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Postal Station	Description	Edit
141	(Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period is assumed. [-1300, -500]	unknown	None
142	(Egypt - Kushite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Kushite Period is assumed. [-747, -656]	unknown	None
143	(Sarazm)	Full Year Range of Sarazm is assumed. [-3500, -2000]	unknown	None
144	(Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age is assumed. [-3000, -2000]	absent	None
145	(Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II is assumed. [-1500, -1400]	unknown	None
146	(Late Cappadocia)	Full Year Range of Late Cappadocia is assumed. [-322, -93]	unknown	None
147	(Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic is assumed. [-6000, -5500]	absent	None
148	(Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic is assumed. [-5500, -3000]	absent	None
149	(East Roman Empire)	Full Year Range of East Roman Empire is assumed. [395, 631]	present	None
150	(Hatti - Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Hatti - Old Kingdom is assumed. [-1650, -1500]	unknown	None

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