Sentence examples for stone disk from inspiring English sources

In 1978 it was determined that these concavities had inlaid eyes of white coral with a dark stone disk for the pupil.

Tlachtli was not unlike modern football (soccer); the object was to propel a gutta-percha ball through the air without touching it with the hands; if it went through a small hole in the carved stone disk or hit the circular goal, the game was won.

In 1978, workmen uncovered a huge, eight-tonne sculpted stone disk depicting the scattered limbs of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui.

The stone disk at the southern Andranomatsatso gateway is also in good condition.

Amalaka, a stone disk with ridges on the rim, is placed over the bada of the temple.

Its stone disk is also intact, and the path leading to it is paved with cut stones.

The best known of these valuables were the large, flat stone disks that the men of Yap manufactured on Palau and carried home in sailing canoes.

Until the early 20th century the people on Yap, an island in the Pacific Ocean, used large stone disks (pictured) as money for big expenses, such as a daughter's dowry.

Campbell is more concerned with weird facts and flights of fancy than with rigorous analysis, and the book's indulgent early sections drift somewhat, but things pick up in the thoroughly enjoyable second half as Campbell heads to the Micronesian island of Yap, where for centuries people used great stone disks – up to 10ft in diameter – as money.

Sensors in the device (connected to the wires at center left) monitor the temperature of the stone disks as well as their acceleration and deceleration as they grind past each other.

Extensive ruins and the islanders' renowned use of stone-disk money date from that period.