Assertion: archaeology | /r/CapableOf | use method
Facets:
value: extensively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: But although archaeology uses extensively the methods, techniques, and results of the physical and biological sciences, it is not a natural science; some consider it a discipline that is half science and half humanity.
text: Archaeology not only uses its own methods but borrows some from other sciences—for example, the dating of organic remains by their content of radioactive carbon 14C, the establishment of relative and absolute dates from annual rings of wood found in archaeological remains, the establishment of the absolute age of burnt clay articles by measuring their vestigial magnetization, and different geological methods of dating such as by deposits of ribbon clay.