She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1962 with a thesis on "mammalian faunas from sites in India and western Asia".
[1] She also attended lectures by Gordon Childe, Kathleen Kenyon and Max Mallowan,[2] which gave her a solid background in the archaeology of Central Europe and the Middle East.
[2] She published more than 90 scientific reports, papers, books and popular articles on zooarchaeology and the history of domesticated mammals.
[5] Her "Natural History of Domesticated Mammals" became the standard text-book for most zoo-archaeology courses in the UK and abroad.
[2][6] In 1966, when Jewell was made Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nigeria, the family moved to Nsukka.
[9] Anneke Clason, Sebastian Payne and Hans-Peter Uerpmann published a festschrift in her honour in 1993, entitled Skeletons in Her Cupboard.