u/KaitlynKitti

A common point of discussion around cats is that adult cats often have to learn to meow louder like kittens for humans to hear them. What I’m wondering is what factors drive adult cats to default to quieter meows?

Is it purely instinctual or is there some social pressure telling them to quiet down? Are older cats telling adolescent cats “Keep your voice down. You’re grown up now.”?

The Corded Ware culture, which spread Indo-European languages deep into Europe, was formed as a mix of Indo-European Yamnaya ancestroy and Early European Farmer Globular Amphorae ancestroy. Given the scale of contact between their languages this formation would have involved, can any of LPIE's lexicon be attributed to this mixing?

Below are some guidelines for what we would be looking for:

1. The term should have no plausible Indo-European etymology
2. The term should not be found in Indo-European languages which had no contact or ancestry from the Corded Ware
3. The term should line up with Globular Amphorae material culture

How were these identities understood by their members? What defined the divions between them?

I'm familiar with AlphaABS, but could never quite get it to work how I want it. MogHunter's ABS always felt too intimidating to try. Any newer ones out there?