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The sad truth is that a 300-year-old house gets more 'historical' protection than a pre-Columbian site. Many people don't consider Indian heritage our heritage and they're indifferent to its presence and loss. So many sites have been lost before they were even officially recognised.
When artefacts indicate that a development area may be a site of some kind, many if not most times, the builder's urge is to hurry and destroy it before someone notices and slows down or stops the work. The sites are seen as being valuable to a few people in ivory towers but just a nuisance to the average person. The sense that this is human heritage and therefore everyone's is completely missing. The American history that everyone is always on about does not at all include native American history in public opinion.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road