Bottom line? Turn Mesa Verde into condos for all I care.
I agree. If we preserve all of the past, there is no present or future.
Excavation for new sites will always turn up these things. They found Peter's tomb, they think, under the Vatican. The pope said, "He really was here. Wow."
I suggest digging under all the prominent buildings in America. People have a way of building over older cities.
"Cave condos at Mesa Verde" What a concept.