The latest archaeological research findings were presented at the ongoing 2025 Sanxingdui Forum in Deyang, Sichuan, officially confirming the exact dating of the sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui Site. A joint study by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Peking University, using radiocarbon dating, shows that the burial dates of Pits Nos. 3, 4, 6, and 8 have a 95.4 percent probability of falling between 1201 BC and 1012 BC, corresponding to the late Shang Dyn