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PROFESSOR: 'When the excavation team at Göbekli Tepe first uncovered monumental T-shaped limestone pillars weighing upwards

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Audio Transcript Excerpt:
PROFESSOR: 'When the excavation team at Göbekli Tepe first uncovered monumental T-shaped limestone pillars weighing upwards of ten tons and dating to nearly 11,500 years ago, conventional anthropology was caught completely flat-footed.'
[Audio Replay Excerpt: 'Conventional wisdom held that hunter-gatherer bands were incapable of organizing the division of labor or logistical support required for monumental megalithic architecture prior to the invention of agriculture. So when the radiocarbon dates came back... let's just say a lot of textbooks became expensive doorstops overnight.']

What is the professor's attitude when stating that 'a lot of textbooks became expensive doorstops overnight'?

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Amused by how fundamentally the unexpected archaeological discovery shattered established anthropological dogma.

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Frustrated by the high financial cost of publishing archaeological literature.

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Concerned that radiocarbon dating methodologies at Göbekli Tepe were systematically flawed.

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Disappointed that ancient hunter-gatherers spent valuable resources on architecture instead of farming.

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