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
171	(Sakha - Early)	Full Year Range of Sakha - Early is assumed. [1400, 1632]	absent	None
172	(Sakha - Late)	Full Year Range of Sakha - Late is assumed. [1632, 1900]	present	None
173	(Byzantine Empire I)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire I is assumed. [632, 866]	present	None
174	(Konya Plain - Late Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Neolithic is assumed. [-6600, -6000]	absent	None
175	(Ottoman Emirate)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Emirate is assumed. [1299, 1402]	present	None
176	(Ottoman Empire III)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire III is assumed. [1683, 1839]	present	None
177	(Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late)	Full Year Range of Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late is assumed. [1714, 1848]	absent	None
178	(Cahokia - Late Woodland I)	Full Year Range of Cahokia - Late Woodland I is assumed. [300, 450]	absent	None
179	(Cahokia - Sand Prairie)	Full Year Range of Cahokia - Sand Prairie is assumed. [1275, 1400]	absent	None
180	(Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I)	Full Year Range of Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I is assumed. [750, 900]	absent	None

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