María Isabel Moreno Padilla obtained his BA in History of Art (specialization in Archaeology), his MA and PhD degrees in Archeology from the University of Jaén (Spain). She is part of the University Institute for Research in Iberian Archeology at the University of Jaén since 2013, where currently she is a posdoctoral fellow.

Her research interests inclue pottery studes in Protohistoric, mainly the relationship beetwen its iconography ant social processes.  Her studies is also focused in conflict archaeology, meanly trhough the study of the materiality.

She has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, like Journal of Roman Archaeology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, and Trabajos de Prehistoria, among others.

Furthermore, she has authored 12 book chapters, and has edited one book. She has participated in several congresses, courses, and national and international seminars (more 40).

Bibliography

• Moreno Padilla, M.I. (2022): “Imágenes para la muerte. Narrativas iconográficas en la necrópolis de Toya”, in: Rísquez, C., Rueda, C. and Herranz, A., ed.: El reflejo del poder en la muerte. La Cámara Sepulcral de Toya, Instituto de Estudios Gienneses y Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, 473-494. ISBN: 978-84-9159-485-7.
• Gutiérrez Rodríguez, M., Lechuga Chica, M.A., Moreno Padilla, M.I., Bellón, J.P. (2022): “Multiscalar spatial and geoarchaeological análisis of the main Roman road in Hispania. The Via Augusta where it passes throufh the Ianus Augustus(Mengíbar, Spain)”, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, 142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01602-6
• Bellón Ruiz, J.P., Lechuga Chica, M.A., Moreno Padilla, M.I., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, M. (2021): “Ianus Augustus. Caput Viae (Mengíbar, Spain). An interprovincial monumental border in Roman Hispania”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 34, 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759421000283
• Bellón Ruiz, J.P., Lechuga Chica, M.A., Rueda Galán, C., Moreno Padilla, M.I., Quesada Sanz, F., Molinos Molinos, M., Ruiz Rodríguez, A., García-Bellido, M.P., Ortiz Nieto, I., Vallés Iriso, J. (2021): “De situ Iliturgi, análisis arqueológico de su asedio en el contexto de la Segunda Guerra Púnica”, Archivo Español de Arqueología 94, e15. https://doi.org/10.3989/aespa.094.021.15
• Moreno Padilla, M.I. (2019): “La decoración geométrica pintada, nuevos análisis”, in Bellón, J.P. and Moreno, M.I., ed.: Cien años de arqueología de un monumento: la Cámara de Tugia, Instituto de Estudios Giennenses, Jaén, 115-130. ISBN: 978-84-92876-89-1.
• Bellón Ruiz, J.P., Moreno Padilla, M.I. (2019): Cien años de arqueología de un monumento: la Cámara de Tugia, Instituto de Estudios Giennenses, Jaén. ISBN: 978-84-92876-89-1.
• Bellón Ruiz, J.P., Rueda Galán, C., Lechuga Chica, M.A., Moreno Padilla, M.I. (2016): “An archaeological análisis of a Second Punic War battlefield: the camps of the Battle of Baecula”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 29, 73-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759400072056