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
171	(Japan - Incipient Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Incipient Jomon is assumed. [-13600, -9200]	absent	None
172	(Japan - Initial Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Initial Jomon is assumed. [-9200, -5300]	absent	None
173	(Japan - Early Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Early Jomon is assumed. [-5300, -3500]	absent	None
174	(Japan - Middle Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Middle Jomon is assumed. [-3500, -2500]	absent	None
175	(Japan - Late Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Late Jomon is assumed. [-2500, -1200]	absent	None
176	(Japan - Final Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Final Jomon is assumed. [-1200, -300]	absent	None
177	(Kansai - Yayoi Period)	Full Year Range of Kansai - Yayoi Period is assumed. [-300, 250]	absent	None
178	(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)	Full Year Range of Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial is assumed. [1841, 1987]	absent	None
179	(Mahajanapada era)	Full Year Range of Mahajanapada era is assumed. [-600, -324]	absent	None
180	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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