The Bundu Farm site (/ˈbʊnduː/) is a kidney shape depression (or pan) of land located in the Bushmanland region of Northern Cape, South Africa.
[1] These discoveries give an insight into the occupation of the Bushmanland prehistoric people and possible connection of cultures and traditions between the central interior and the West coast of South Africa.
Located inside the Nama Karoo biome at an elevation of 1105 m in an open landscape, the site environment is semi-arid to arid with frequent prolonged droughts.
The ground is covered with thin, weakly developed, lime-rich sandy gravel soils above Dwyka and Ecca sandstones, silts and shales of the Karoo Supergroup.
Analysis of bones, teeth and tusks suggested that the Pleistocene assemblages are dominated by both extant and extinct herbivores, such as the giant cape horse (Equus capensis), warthog (Phacochoerus sp.
Deposits of the gastropod, Tomichia ventricosa, at Swartkolkkloer, a large pan site 100 km to the west of Bundu, have been used in support of the argument that when standing water was present in the past, it was predominantly brackish.
[3] These mix of species at Bundu are also found at Florisbad and provides the first evidence for the extension of the Florisian Faunal Suite into the Bushmanland region during the Pleistocene.