The migratory phenomenon in the formative process of the American man and Modernity

Abstract

Since man’s incursion into the Behring Strait in one of the warm interglacial epochs, as well as another possible route or routes of invasion into American territory from Australia and Polynesia, until the arrival and subsequent conquest by Europeans of the so-called New World, from which the era of Modernity begins, Migration and cultural miscegenation were two fundamental components in the process of formation of the American people. The mobilization of men and the mixing of their worlds, resulting from those interactions and bonds that were aroused in the land of America, returned multiple forms that formed a new human type, composed of the selection of each of the peoples who throughout history transited and, in large part, remained on those fertile lands that extend from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Cape Horn to the south, at the confluence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which delimit the continent to the east and west respectively