Sounds like a great vacation!
It was-we had visited the cousin’s husband on digs before, and got to work for a few hours, but those were well-known sites in NM, not in another country, and we didn’t get to work there for 2 weeks. I did get to keep something from Casas Grandes-a perfect little arrowhead less than 2 inches long-the kind some call a bird point-it was in some dirt and ashed sifted by a big firepit. I would not have kept it if it had been near any human bones-that would be bad luck...