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PRICE, Utah (AP) — Federal officials say two Salt Lake City-area teenage siblings were responsible for vandalizing a popular rock art panel northeast of Price earlier this year.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says investigators determined the two siblings carved their initials and the date into a rock face near an image of a pregnant buffalo in Nine Mile Canyon in May.
BLM archaeologists say the damage will cost about $1,500 to repair, which the teenagers' family agreed to pay.
Lara Douglas, acting field manager for the BLM Price office, says the siblings were 17 and 14 years old.
Douglas declined to say if the teenagers were male or female.
The rock art panels in the canyon are believed to date back to the Fremont period between 900 and 1250.
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