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
31	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None
32	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
33	(Proto-French Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Proto-French Kingdom is assumed. [987, 1150]	unknown	None
34	(Carolingian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Carolingian Empire II is assumed. [840, 987]	absent	None
35	(Hallstatt A-B1)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt A-B1 is assumed. [-1000, -900]	unknown	None
36	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None
37	(Hallstatt C)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt C is assumed. [-700, -600]	unknown	None
38	(Hallstatt D)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt D is assumed. [-600, -475]	unknown	None
39	(Early Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Early Merovingian is assumed. [481, 543]	unknown	None
40	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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