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
251	(Khitan I)	Full Year Range of Khitan I is assumed. [907, 1125]	present	None
252	(Late Mongols)	Full Year Range of Late Mongols is assumed. [1368, 1690]	present	None
253	(Zungharian Empire)	Full Year Range of Zungharian Empire is assumed. [1670, 1757]	present	None
254	(Early Monte Alban I)	Full Year Range of Early Monte Alban I is assumed. [-500, -300]	absent	None
255	(Monte Alban Late I)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban Late I is assumed. [-300, -100]	absent	None
256	(Monte Alban III)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban III is assumed. [200, 500]	absent	None
257	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban IIIB and IV is assumed. [500, 900]	absent	None
258	(Monte Alban V)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V is assumed. [900, 1520]	absent	None
259	(Middle Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Middle Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-800, -401]	absent	None
260	(Oaxaca - Rosario)	Full Year Range of Oaxaca - Rosario is assumed. [-700, -500]	absent	None

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