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
131	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	absent	None
132	(Prepalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Prepalatial Crete is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	absent	None
133	(Early United Mexican States)	Full Year Range of Early United Mexican States is assumed. [1810, 1920]	present	None
134	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	absent	None
135	(Shuar - Ecuadorian)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed. [1831, 1931]	absent	None
136	(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III is assumed. [1412, 1517]	present	None
137	(Ptolemaic Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom I is assumed. [-305, -217]	present	None
138	(Egypt - Saite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Saite Period is assumed. [-664, -525]	unknown	None
139	(Atlantic Complex)	Full Year Range of Atlantic Complex is assumed. [-2200, -1000]	unknown	None
140	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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