“Although there have been some attempts to try to replicate the results of these ancient settlement burnings, no modern experiment has yet managed to successfully reproduce the conditions that would leave behind the type of evidence that is found in these burned Neolithic sites, had the structures burned under normal conditions.”
Neolithic villages across southeastern Europe burned so hot the clay walls turned to ceramic. Modern experiments can’t get a house fire that hot by accident. So somebody stacked the fuel on purpose. Archaeologists still argue over whether it was ritual, warfare or demolition. Nobody left a note.