Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations : With Illustrations from Recent Cretan Finds, Paperback by Evans, Arthur John, ISBN 1108060919, ISBN-13 9781108060912, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this highly illustrated work, published in 1901, Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941), the great excavator of ancient Cretan culture, surveys the archaeological evidence for a common form of religious worship connected with symbols of sacred stones, pillars and trees found on Mycenaean Crete and in other ancient Mediterranean cultures.