Standing Bronze Figure from Sanxingdui Bronze standing figure, Late Shang Period (c. 1300-1100 B.C.) Sanxingdui Museum, Guanghan Bronze standing figure from Sanxingdui, over life-size, c. 1200 BCE. Excavated in 1986, the figure had been deliberately broken and dumped in a pit probably containing the remains of sacrificial animals. [Craig Clunas, Art in China (Oxford & New York: Oxford Universit..