Interesting links M, I didn't comment earlier as it all felt a bit baffling. You've probably seen this link which is related as about DNA testing again and also references your first link. This time about the origins of horses ... which is intriguing as horses appear on rock/cave paintings.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/horse-origin-mysterious-domestic-dna-analysis-przewalskis-botai-domesticated-a8224121.html

See also the Peche Merle spotted horses - which seem to be dated between 25,000BC and 16,000BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pech_Merle

Read in conjunction with the Independent's article it all seems a bit confusing.

Yeah, saw the horses article the other day. Seems we can't take anything for granted at the minute. I do find all this 'new' science is kinda exciting, I quite like it when accepted opinions are turned on their head. I was particularly interested in the cave painting/languge development studies article. Dunno how much I buy into it, I'm sure peeps were communicating aurally before they started hanging around in the depths of caves, poisoning themselves to make handprints and pictograms, but it's an interesting idea nontheless. They'll be telling us lithophones invented music next.