Scavengers should be wandering the zone. It looks like this was screwed this up when the Captain Nealith's Brother quest was implemented. Good news for anyone who wants a Glaive of Marltek, bad news for monks trying to do their shackle quest.
I tried looking up old information to back-up my claim but no one really commented about them much back in the day since they were generic trash mobs asides from a couple people asking what the scarlet stones were for.
http://web.archive.org/web/200105232...how&BID=125264 implies people would regularly kill for coin and crappy armor drops
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2718 this looks to be where the bad info that they only should spawn at the 2 tent / iksar head statue camp came from