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Of course haplogroups can do both inhumation and cremation. My point is, M458 shows up in late Hallstatt which coincides precisely with the arrival of cremation rites and Iron weapons.
M458 could have introduced cremation to Hallstatt. If one haplogroup more commonly practiced cremation, they could appear less common on the archeological record than they may have been given the domination of cremation over inhumation. M458 aDNA increases with the Christian era and is hard to find before this. Probably because cremation was dropped.
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