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
151	(Uruk)	Full Year Range of Uruk is assumed. [-4000, -2900]	unknown	None
152	(Formative Period)	Full Year Range of Formative Period is assumed. [-7200, -7000]	absent	None
153	(Susiana B)	Full Year Range of Susiana B is assumed. [-5700, -5100]	absent	None
154	(Susiana - Late Ubaid)	Full Year Range of Susiana - Late Ubaid is assumed. [-4700, -4300]	unknown	None
155	(Susiana - Early Ubaid)	Full Year Range of Susiana - Early Ubaid is assumed. [-5100, -4700]	unknown	None
156	(Elam - Kidinuid Period)	Full Year Range of Elam - Kidinuid Period is assumed. [-1500, -1400]	unknown	None
157	(Elam I)	Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed. [-900, -744]	unknown	None
158	(Elam II)	Full Year Range of Elam II is assumed. [-743, -647]	unknown	None
159	(Pre-Ceramic Period)	Full Year Range of Pre-Ceramic Period is assumed. [-7800, -7200]	absent	None
160	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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