Here’s a little-known fact about archeology: After all the excavating and recording is done, archeologists spent their nights drinking and fucking.

An excavation is like a naughty sleepaway camp. You’re trapped far away from civilization with dozens of people who share your interests, no television, and too much alcohol. Sex is inevitable.

MAs dig director, though, I rarely partake. I have to set an example. But I’m aware of the undergrads and grad students sneaking away for sex, and I’m incredibly jealous. I’m in my 30s and blessedly single, but I have a grown woman’s needs, and I’ve spent too many nights frantically rubbing my clit alone in my tent.

My dig is a site in Chile’s Atacama Desert. This last season, one of our trenches was finally showing a... Read More