Mary had been studying archaeology for four years now and was a senior in college getting ready to go on to graduate school when the head of the department had been called away on a dig in the mountains of Colorado. Dr. Davis had asked her as his top student if she would care to join him on this excavation and get some field work. Mary had heartily agreed and gone to pack her bags immediately.
Mary rooted through her closet packing everything warm she could find. She also packed a few sexy dresses and nightclothes in case they had a chance to go out while they were near Denver. She had assumed they would set up a base camp in the mountains though while the excavation was in process but afterwards depending on what they found they may be city bound for a short time. Dr. Davis had told her that he would provide the necessary items: goggles, coat, toboggan, gloves and so on needed for cold weather that she would just be in need of clothes.
As they sat in the plane, Dr. Davis began to reveal what the prize could be expected to be during the excavation. "Mary dear," he began, "we are looking at possibly finding the most intact caveman and weapons that have been found to date. Satellite imagery thus far has shown a man-sized object and something much larger beneath him. Eventually they won't even need us for these digs that imagery will show them everything they need to know down to the finest hair, but until then it's all us."
Mary felt her breath catch as she thought about the possibilities of being a part of this historic dig. She wanted the prestige and honor that could cum with it as well as the self satisfaction that her grades and brain had gotten here and not her coed body. She was sure that hadn't hurt her being a choice but if she had to endure a little physical fun in order to achieve her work-related goal that was something she was well prepared to do. She also wondered though because the doctor had never hit on her during all four years she had been here and though she knew they were now going to be in completely different surroundings the 40ish man probably would behave himself.
When their plane landed, they were greeted by the digging team who was eager to get started and they were lead out along with all of their supplies to a convoy of SUV's. It was only a matter of hours now until they would be at the site and even though everyone was a bit tired they were eager at least show a little beginning to their work before turning in and they still had a few hours of daylight left.
Two hours later they had dug out a huge chunk of ice and the form of a man could be vaguely made out in the depths. It would still take a few days to get down far enough to break out the chunk containing the caveman intact, they wouldn't want to damage him by cracking the ice he was in before they could get him into a facility to thaw him out and do a thorough autopsy. Mary climbed into her pop up tent and flicked on the heater as she slipped down into her leggings and into her sleeping bag.
She awoke the next morning to the doctor sitting next to her brushing back her hair and talking softly as he offered her a cup of coffee. "Sorry to startle you dear but we have to get a jump on this as soon as first light hits. You were out so soon after entering your tent last night so I couldn't prepare you for the early rousing."
"That's fine Dr. Davis," Mary replied as she brushed the hair out of her eyes, "I didn't even think about it last night I was so exhausted from the flight and excitement."
"Mary, you can call me Steve, Dr. Davis sounds so uppity."
"All right Steve, well if you'll give me a few moments I will get dressed and be out to join you."
"See you in a few then," Steve replied as he slipped out of the tent.
Mary got herself up and dressed and ventured out to the start of what could prove to be a very wonderful day. She wished she had a boyfriend on this trip to relieve some of that extra excitement coursing through her veins but she wasn't sure where to even begin if she wanted a man out here. There were too many possibilities she giggled to herself. Steve would prove a great lover she thought or perhaps one of the diggers with their rippling muscles might do well if she just wanted good, rough and sweaty sex. She pushed these thoughts out of her mind for now content to figure she could pick one of them out tonight if the day went well.
Mary joined Dr. Davis on the side of the pit as the digging crew was begging work. The doctor was giving careful directions so that the men wouldn't chip the ice and damage it too greatly before the man below could be gotten to and brought up safely. As the sun reached its peak Mary realized that soon they would be face to face with possibly the oldest caveman ever found in North America. Her giddiness was nearing uncontrollable heights as the excavation crew brought in the large crane to hook into the ice and pull the chunk up out of the ground.
"This is it Mary," Dr. Davis began, "within hours we will have this specimen on a table and thawing out. I hope you do realize what this will do for our careers. This will add enormous accolades to my own and give yours a bright beginning beyond your wildest dreams."
"And to think sir, I gave up this environmental cleanup on campus, seems like a fair trade off," she laughed, "what could be more environmentally helpful than excavating one of the earth's oldest specimen's of human life?"
"Dammit girl I told you to call me Steve. We are going to make the university a ton of money as well as maybe a new wing in my honor," he chuckled in reply.
Stepping back to give the men room to work Mary watched in awe as the heavy, huge chunk of ice was lifted free from the ground. The men's hard work had paid off and their expertise had brought free the chunk with the man inside without disturbing the layers of ice underneath which showed that something larger was deeper down. They would of course continue their digging but that would be in the absence of Steve and Mary. The two would be in a lab carefully thawing out this man and waiting for whatever was beneath to arrive later. The excavation leader would have this fully in hand Steve had said as they departed in a large SUV with the man in ice on a trailer being towed behind it.
Two hours later they were standing inside base camp at the bottom of the mountains with heat lamps blazing as they watched the ice melt away from the man. "Steve, this is exciting, can you imagine how long this man must have been underneath the ice, and look at the definition of his muscles, still intact and he looks enormous."
