“…For example, necrophagous (feeding on corpses or carrion) insects have been used to reconstruct Moche (Peru), Ancient Egyptian, Medieval (France), and Bronze Age (Levant) funerary practices (Huchet 1996(Huchet , 2010(Huchet , 2013Huchet and Greenberg 2010), and pests of stored products have revealed new information about trade and sanitary conditions in grain stores (Huchet 2017;King et al 2014;Smith and Kenward 2011). In general terms, Coleoptera (beetles) subfossils can be used to reconstruct local ecological and climatic conditions (Dussault, Bell, and Grimes 2016;Elias 1997;Poher et al 2017;Ponel et al 2005), while also allowing the examination of past biodiversity change and the role humans played in the dispersal of species worldwide (Bain and King 2011;Panagiotakopulu 2014;Sadler 1991).…”