PRICE, UTAH—A rock shelter in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon has been vandalized. Members of the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance discovered the damage last month and reported it to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). “It’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen,” Jerry D. Spangler, director of the nonprofit archaeology organization, told Deseret News. Two wire cables had been buried in the floor of the shelter, and archaeological material within the shelter had been moved to build new walls, according to Ahmed Mohsen, manager of the BLM’s Price field office. Spangler thinks the damage to the site was fairly recent, and that it has damaged the context of the artifacts. “It’s sad that someone would chose to make this their own little playground,” he said. To read about a mystery dealing with ancient figurines from the region, see "Investigating a Decades-Old Disappearance."
