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Skyscapes enable a multifaceted approach to what can be associated with the perception of the sky (elaborated upon initially in Silva 2015a and further clarified in Silva 2017). The sky can be framed by a landscape and its components, whether they are material or metaphorical. The sky can also be engaged with in many other ways that all have a holistic approach in common: the concept of watching. In order to explore and make evident the holistic perception of the watching of skyscapes, the chapter will make reference to two research projects that take wholly different approaches: a hard science and a phenomenological creative response. The first, “Human Eyes and Ancient Monuments: Investigating Observation of Horizon Events within Passage Graves”, develops from the darkened science lab out into a contextualised skyscape – watching from the depth of a passage grave how the skyscape beyond reveals …