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
81	(Elam - Kidinuid Period)	Full Year Range of Elam - Kidinuid Period is assumed. [-1500, -1400]	unknown	None
82	(Elam I)	Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed. [-900, -744]	unknown	None
83	(Elam II)	Full Year Range of Elam II is assumed. [-743, -647]	unknown	None
84	(Pre-Ceramic Period)	Full Year Range of Pre-Ceramic Period is assumed. [-7800, -7200]	absent	None
85	(Qajar)	Full Year Range of Qajar is assumed. [1794, 1925]	unknown	None
86	(Susa I)	Full Year Range of Susa I is assumed. [-4300, -3800]	unknown	None
87	(Latium - Bronze Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Bronze Age is assumed. [-1800, -900]	absent	None
88	(Latium - Copper Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Copper Age is assumed. [-3600, -1800]	absent	None
89	(Ostrogothic Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Ostrogothic Kingdom is assumed. [489, 554]	present	None
90	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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