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
71	(Deccan - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Iron Age is assumed. [-1200, -300]	absent	None
72	(Deccan - Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Neolithic is assumed. [-2700, -1200]	absent	None
73	(Abbasid Caliphate II)	Full Year Range of Abbasid Caliphate II is assumed. [1191, 1258]	unknown	None
74	(Early Dynastic)	Full Year Range of Early Dynastic is assumed. [-2900, -2500]	unknown	None
75	(Ubaid)	Full Year Range of Ubaid is assumed. [-5500, -4201]	unknown	None
76	(Uruk)	Full Year Range of Uruk is assumed. [-4000, -2900]	unknown	None
77	(Formative Period)	Full Year Range of Formative Period is assumed. [-7200, -7000]	absent	None
78	(Susiana B)	Full Year Range of Susiana B is assumed. [-5700, -5100]	absent	None
79	(Susiana - Late Ubaid)	Full Year Range of Susiana - Late Ubaid is assumed. [-4700, -4300]	unknown	None
80	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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