The items from the two burial pits were compared with items unearthed earlier at Sanxingdui. This comparison, and the results of carbon-14 dating, indicated that the relics had been buried over 3,000 years ago, when the Shang culture flourished in the Yellow River region.
兩個祭祀坑的寶藏經由之前出土文物的比對、碳十四數據的檢測，約為三千多年時黃河流域的殷商文化中期。