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Stone Age Herbalist returns with over twenty new essays, covering everything from prehistoric skull cults in Anatolia to contemporary corpse brides in China. While modernity feels fully tamed and safe, nothing could be further from the truth, the world is still full of madness and magic and the past even more so. Essays Vol II brings together sections on archaeology, anthropology, biology and history to shake the foundations of what you thought was real - dogs which defy Darwinism, 21st century concentration camps for witches, murder victims mummified and sold as precious artefacts, forgotten genocides and modern child sacrifice. Alongside the darkness there is also wonder, the origins of metallurgy, Dionysian rewilding, lost tribes, times when farmers abandoned agriculture for hunting and much more. With a new introduction speaking to the value of truthfulness and moving beyond good and evil in scholarship, this volume builds on the previous one in re-imagining the world for the reader. Vitalism, heroic and cruel deeds, scepticism of pretty lies and above all the power of showing nature and life as it really is.