For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.
If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.
Because?
I would love to, though.
I could participate in an emergency dig up, about 30 years ago. Beaker culture. The experience was awesome. Because it was an emergency dig up, there were just a few professional archaeologists. The rest of the people were interested and willing to be part of it all. And thus we saw from within how an operation like that works, and we got thrilled at finding things ourselves.
The professor leading the whole operation gave us kind of lectures in the evenings too, and, he was an amazing cook on top of that.