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
181	(Koktepe I)	Full Year Range of Koktepe I is assumed. [-1400, -1000]	unknown	None
182	(Koktepe II)	Full Year Range of Koktepe II is assumed. [-750, -550]	absent	None
183	(Himyar I)	Full Year Range of Himyar I is assumed. [270, 340]	unknown	None
184	(Himyar II)	Full Year Range of Himyar II is assumed. [378, 525]	absent	None
185	(Yemen - Qasimid Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Yemen - Qasimid Dynasty is assumed. [1637, 1805]	unknown	None
186	(Durrani Empire)	Full Year Range of Durrani Empire is assumed. [1747, 1826]	absent	None
187	(Eastern Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Eastern Han Empire is assumed. [25, 220]	present	None
188	(Western Jin)	Full Year Range of Western Jin is assumed. [265, 317]	present	None
189	(Erligang)	Full Year Range of Erligang is assumed. [-1650, -1250]	absent	None
190	(Erlitou)	Full Year Range of Erlitou is assumed. [-1850, -1600]	absent	None

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