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
111	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None
112	(Hallstatt C)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt C is assumed. [-700, -600]	unknown	None
113	(Hallstatt D)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt D is assumed. [-600, -475]	unknown	None
114	(Early Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Early Merovingian is assumed. [481, 543]	unknown	None
115	(Proto-Carolingian)	Full Year Range of Proto-Carolingian is assumed. [687, 751]	unknown	None
116	(Middle Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Middle Merovingian is assumed. [543, 687]	unknown	None
117	(La Tene A-B1)	Full Year Range of La Tene A-B1 is assumed. [-475, -325]	unknown	None
118	(La Tene B2-C1)	Full Year Range of La Tene B2-C1 is assumed. [-325, -175]	unknown	None
119	(La Tene C2-D)	Full Year Range of La Tene C2-D is assumed. [-175, -27]	unknown	None
120	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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