Terence McKenna called it his “stoned ape” theory.
Every human society has had some form of mind altering substance in its knowledge base. Typically alcohol.
Even South American Natives in the jungles of the upper Amazon, have a way of making an alcoholic beverage by chewing the insides of a certain palm tree and spitting it into a hollow log and letting it ferment.
Inuit ferment fish heads.....................
Even birds are known to get drunk on fermented fruit they find on the ground, apparently on purpose.............