c. 1800 BC Bronze Age groundZem z doby bronzovej

The land Očová stands on was inhabited in the Bronze Age, roughly eighteen hundred years before Christ. That is nearly all that can be said with confidence, because nothing written survives from anywhere near that far back — and the village's own Slovak account admits plainly that its oldest history has never been satisfactorily explained. What the archaeology does establish is that the flat ground where the Slatina comes out of the hills was worth living on very early, which is not surprising: water, meadow and forest all meet here.Zem, na ktorej Očová stojí, bola osídlená už v dobe bronzovej, zhruba osemnásťsto rokov pred naším letopočtom. Viac sa s istotou povedať nedá, lebo z takej hĺbky času sa nezachovalo nič písané — a slovenský opis obce sám priznáva, že najstaršie dejiny Očovej dodnes nie sú uspokojivo objasnené. Archeológia potvrdzuje aspoň to, že rovina, kde Slatina vychádza z kopcov, sa oplatila obývať veľmi zavčasu. Nie je to prekvapujúce: stretáva sa tu voda, lúka aj les.