1 (Wednesday 10th April) THE HUNTER IN THE STARS

We begin with the origins of art in the images projected into the night sky by our earliest ancestors. How and why did we first images patterns of stars as the forms of animals, and how did we arrive at the idea of the Zodiac? And why was it only with the first great migration out of Africa that humans begin carving and painting images, creating the earliest surviving works of art? And what does it mean that for the first thirty thousand years of image making, there was only one subject — animals? We take the story up to around 10,000 years ago, setting the scene for the story of art to come.