This is significant, as it might drive-back the discovery of beer by 10,000 years. Think about it, we’ve been getting wasted for ten more millenia.
When the Brits first went to Tasmania, they discovered the most primitive tribe ever encountered.
The native Tasmanians did not know the use of bows, atlatls, boomerangs, boats, wooden rafts, or clothing. They did not know how to make any kind of shelter. If it rained, they got wet.
But they made booze. They gathered tree sap in bark pans and let it ferment naturally.
I think we have been getting buzzed for at least 100,000 years.