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R-CTS3655 Timeline:
Circa 3000 BCE - Insular Celtic language splits to Goedelic (later Irish, Manx, Scots Gaelic), and Brythonic (later Breton, Cornish, Cumbric, and Welsh).
Circa 2600 BCE - emergence of L21, which was later (by the now defunct BritainsDNA, in the early years of Y DNA analysis for genealogy) identified to people known as Pretanī/Britons.
Circa 2350 BCE - emergence of DF21
Circa 2300 BCE - emergence of Z30233
Circa 1550 BCE - emergence of CTS3655, possibly in what later becomes Germany (see CTS3655>Z16539>Z16540 and CTS3655>Z16539>FT402621).
Circa 1300 BCE - emergence of L627, possibly among the Dumnonii.
Circa 1300 - 800 BCE - Middle to late Bronze Age... arrival of Brythonic-speaking peoples in what is now southern Britain.
Circa 600 BCE - Note the "Devon Cluster" (CTS3655>Z16539>Z16540>BY3989) in the DF21 Y DNA Project.
Circa 1000 - 875 BCE - spread of Brythonic-speaking peoples throughout Southern Britain.
1st Century BCE - Diodorus Suculus refers to "Pretannia", a rendering of the indigenous name for the Pretani people whom the Greeks believed to inhabit what was later called the British Isles.