Humans as pollinators

Plants can have very different pollinators: The wind, insects, and even birds. However, is there a conceivable scenario where a plant could naturally have evolved to depend on humans as pollinators, where the humans (at least in the early stages of development) wouldn't know that they are pollinating the plants?

Note that I'm not after the scenario where a modern developed humanity killed the natural pollinator and thereforehumans now have to provide the pollination themselves; rather I'm after a scenario where a pre-civilized human tribe would though their usual behaviour, without knowing it, pollinate the plant in question, and the plant would actually be adapted to make the humans pollinate it.

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