Claim: On the table of Neolithic cultures that practiced house burning in the Burned house horizon (Southeastern and Eastern Europe), the Criş culture found in Bulgaria, Moldavia, Serbia, and Wallachia employed the tradition the earliest.
Evidence: In the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, the burned house horizon is the geographical extent of the phenomenon of presumably intentionally burned settlements. This was a widespread and long-lasting tradition in what is now Southeastern and Eastern Europe, lasting from as early as 6500 BCE (the beginning of the Neolithic) to as late as 2000 BCE (the end of the Chalcolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age). Bulgaria, Moldavia, Serbia, Wallachia 5900 to 4750 BC northwest Bulgaria, Eastern Croatia, Serbia, Drina Valley in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, southern Vojvodina 5750 to 5250 BC southeast Muntenia 5500 to 5250 BC Serbia, Transylvania 5500 to 4000 BC southern Hungary, Vojvodina, northern Transylvania 5260 to 4880 BC northern Bulgaria, Muntenia, southeast Transylvania 5250 to 4400 BC Hungary, Moldavia, Slovakia, Transylvania, western Ukraine, Vojvodina 4880 to 4400 BC eastern Wallachia, northern Dobruja 4400 to 3800 BC northwestern Bulgaria, Oltenia, southern Serbia 4300 to 3800 BC. Moldavia, Transylvania, Western Ukraine to Dnieper River 4800 to 3200 BC.