Education
Aiello studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and during this period (1965-1966) spent a year as a visiting student at the University of Göttingen. After followed - also at the University of California, Los Angeles - a masters", which was completed in 1970 with a study of "A Critical Examination of the Structural remains from the Upper Palaeolithic Northern German." After that, she was at a different Californian colleges as Lecturer active until 1976 after London was where she in 1981 at the University of London, the doctoral degree in the subject anatomy acquired with a study on "An Analysis of Shape and Strength in the Long Bones of Higher Primates." This was followed by teaching at the University of Cambridge, the University of Sussex and the Yale University from 1987 to 2005 and a professor at University College London.