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
51	(Hellenistic Crete)	Full Year Range of Hellenistic Crete is assumed. [-323, -69]	absent	None
52	(Monopalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Monopalatial Crete is assumed. [-1450, -1300]	absent	None
53	(Neolithic Crete)	Full Year Range of Neolithic Crete is assumed. [-7000, -3000]	absent	None
54	(New Palace Crete)	Full Year Range of New Palace Crete is assumed. [-1700, -1450]	absent	None
55	(The Old Palace Crete)	Full Year Range of The Old Palace Crete is assumed. [-1900, -1700]	absent	None
56	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	absent	None
57	(Prepalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Prepalatial Crete is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	absent	None
58	(Early United Mexican States)	Full Year Range of Early United Mexican States is assumed. [1810, 1920]	present	None
59	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	absent	None
60	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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